Ask Uncle John Anything: You Will Not, or You Won’t
How did “won’t” ever become a contraction of “will not”? Where did that “o” come from, and where did the “ll” go?
You Can Leave Your Hat On for This Collection of Hat Origin Stories
We tip our hats to these fascinating stories about the inventors, purposes, and origins of several common hats.
Dingers, Hot Stoves, and Other Baffling Baseball Terms Defined
It’s Major League Baseball playoff season, so it seems like a good a time as any to provide the definitions for all those terms the players, managers, and broadcasters pepper into their conversations about the national pastime.
