The Engine Room

So I haven't written anything here on The Engine Room since last summer. That's because I've been working on a new site, Cathedr...

Unlikely as it sounds, I recently got involved in a drunken discussion on the difference between a tree, a bush and a plant. I Googled ...

The Engine Room didn't make it into bab.la and Lexiophiles' list of the 'Top 100 Language Blogs 2010', but if you voted for ...

This query has been emailed into The Engine Room: Is there a word which means that a person's visual identity is unknown? For example,...

Nothing very exciting today - just a bit of image and caption duplication I spotted on BBC News a while back: I like capturing mistakes ...

During my time working on B2B transport mags and now websites, I've come across some interesting transport-related words. 'Crashwort...

According to BBC News (or more accurately, Pretoria News crime reporter Graeme Hosken), 50 odd people are killed every day in South Africa....

Through Fuelmyblog I've had the chance to sample some absinthe from Absinthe-Shop . What's that got to do with language use and jou...

Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson is a man of few words. One word, in fact - and that word is 'gravadlax'. I spotted this on th...