I Just Learned Why We Say 'By And Large' – And It's Surprisingly Nautical
In his 1578 book, mathematician and Navy gunner William Bourne wrote that “to make a ship to draw or go but little into the water, and to hold a good wind, and to sail well both by and large, were ...
Pip Williams on The Dictionary of Lost Words, nuances of language, and her novel's journey to Reese Witherspoon’s book club
Why is it that a word that you feel so viscerally, doesn’t really exist in the dictionary? Our world is overflowing with ...