A horrid task, the annual income tax filing, looms over me as I struggle to comprehend governmental explanations filled with bafflegab.

Remember back in your school days when you opened a text book to discover the previous owner scribbled some marginalia?

Ever wonder what the reproductive process of worms has in common with complex political alliances? Fissiparous is the answer.

Why would I decide on such a simple word for this week’s Spectacular Vernacular? It’s the etymology that caught my attention.

Watching Asheville city leaders explain how 40,000 citizens can go without water for days raised my curiosity on the word feckless.

Writer Sylvia Wright loved the character of Lady Mondegreen so much that she refused to accept she never existed.

Nothing makes holiday gatherings better than useless knowledge to share over drinks, like what exactly is the nog in eggnog.

After a week of rain and dreary conditions, I’m ready for this normally evanescent weather to morph into some sunshine.

People who employ sophistry use facts, figures, and logic skills, so their conclusions must be correct, right?

Don’t worry about this one. You may not know this week’s vocabulary word, litotes, but the literary device is not uncommon.

Pumpernickel is a common type of bread, but the reason it qualifies for a Spectacular Vernacular segment is the etymology is a real gas.

Elisions can be formal and poetic or found in informal everyday speech, so I’m tryin’ to give examples in today’s vocabulary post.