Welcome to Off the Clock, the fortnightly Saturday edition of Timeless & Timely that’s a fun look at language and words, with a smattering of history. If someone forwarded this to you, make sure you join us:
With this marking the Labor Day weekend, I thought I’d make this light lifting for both you and me.
Because a number of new subscribers have joined recently (waving hello to everyone — including you in the back there!), I’m resurfacing some previous entries of Off the Clock and curating them for you.
You can look through the complete archives, or just enjoy these entries.
Our first entry is still one of our most popular:
Hey you zwodder—stop fudgeling about and choose your favorite historical word.
Here’s a fun one: neologisms created by changing just one letter in an existing word.
Still trying to decide whether sarchasm or glibido is my favorite.
This one is only for the brave, the few, the grammarians:
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The creativity in the subject (as well as in the execution of the newsletter) is worth revisiting:
See if you agree and let me know.
And finally, here’s one with some useful reminders as you do your own writing:
It also has one of the most relatable images.
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