Month: October 2025

• Workplace Word Origins: jargon, milestone, sesquipedalian, benchmark, team

  

  Can’t stand jargon? Blame it on the birds!

  John Kelly

  October 27, 2025

  Workplace Word Origins

• Newsy etymology, animals edition: frog, bunny, squirrel, blue jay

  

  “Bunny” was originally “squirrel,” and “squirrel” was originally … “shadow tail”?!

  John Kelly

  October 22, 2025

  Feature

• The bemusing etymological muse of “calliope”

  

  The calliope makes a music perhaps out of tune with its literal roots.

  John Kelly

  October 15, 2025

  Feature