Grumpy Old Scribe

11/23/2015

'Zilla, taken from the primordial deep and dropped into a wedding gown.

An ancient monster awakened by nuclear radiation has nothing on an angry young woman planning her wedding, or at least that’s one take on the -zilla” suffix. Godzilla first emerged from the ocean six decades ago in the appropriately named Japanese film Godzilla. He (she? it?) has proven to be both r…

11/20/2015

The Harry Potter series just became available on Audible--119 hours in all. I'm sunk for the next three to four months.

11/18/2015

Oxford Dictionaries picks an emoji—😂—as their word of the year. Runners up include "sharing economy," "on fleek," and "lumbersexual."

The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is… ! The emoji beat other strong contenders to be named our Word of the Year: find out why.

11/17/2015

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11/17/2015

Coinage of the day: Smombie = smartphone zombie. I shared it with a couple of colleagues then completely ignored their questions while I tried to nail down the reference on my phone.

http://beta.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/gadgets/smombie-teens-coin-word-of-the-year-1945790

Smartphone users are often known to irritate passersby as they walk along streets staring at the small screens in front of them, and now German youngsters have given them a name: “smombies”.

11/02/2015

In the battle of ought versus aught, it usually ought to be ought.

http://www.grumpyoldscribe.com/homophones-ought-vs-aught/