Paul Anthony Jones

Paul Anthony Jones

Joined: Jun 20, 2014

Paul Anthony Jones is a writer and musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of word origins guide Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons, and runs its tie-in Twitter account @HaggardHawks.

32 Forgotten Weather Words

Koalas might be cute, but they're definitely not bears.

34 Misleading Misnomers Explained

Add them to your vocabulary.

11 Words and Phrases You Didn’t Know Had Opposites

Use these words this winter.

10 Old Words For Winter Ailments

Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language.

10 Facts About Webster’s Dictionary

Noah Webster’s two-volume 'An American Dictionary of the English Language' earned him a place in linguistic history, and a reputation as the foremost lexicographer of American English.

Samuel Johnson.

10 Facts About Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary

'Dictionary of the English Language,' published in 1755, remained the foremost dictionary of British English until the early 1900s when the very first installments of the Oxford English Dictionary began to appear.

Don't be a zob.

40 Zesty Z-Words To Add To Your Vocabulary

Don't be a zob—try using one of the 40 zazzy Z-words listed here.

Become a yarn-chopper, even if people accuse you of being prone to yaw-yaw.

40 Useful Y-Words To Add To Your Vocabulary

Become a yarn-chopper, even if people accuse you of being prone to yaw-yaw.

40 Words That Start With X

Only about 0.02 percent of the words in a dictionary start with the letter 'X.' Here are 40 of those rarities.

Whether you're writative or just trying to be a linguistic wheel-horse, these words are for you.

40 Wonderful W-Words To Widen Your Vocabulary

Whether you're writative or just trying to be a linguistic wheel-horse, these words are for you.

40 Vibrant V-Words To Revamp Your Vocabulary

A list to please even the most vinerous among us.

Learn these, lest you become a syntactic ultracrepidarian.

40 Unusual U-Words To Upgrade Your Vocabulary

Learn these, lest you become a syntactic ultracrepidarian.

These T-words are tremendous!

40 Tremendous T-Words To Titivate Your Vocabulary

Some of these words may not be used until Tib's Eve, but that shouldn't stop you from trying, lest you look like a timdoodle.

We swear you'll love these S-words.

40 Super S-Words To Supplement Your Vocabulary

'Scrouge' means to crowd someone. Worth remembering in the COVID-19 era.

Lake City, Florida, almost went by another name entirely.

8 U.S. City Names That Might Have Been

Let's be glad the name "Pig's Eye, Minnesota" didn't stick.

40 Rip-Roaring R-Words To Refresh Your Vocabulary

Our humble letter R has one of the lengthiest and most complicated histories of all the letters of the alphabet.