It was probably about 70 years ago, when one day at school, our teacher introduced us to some new words I had never heard before. One of those words was antepenultimate and the other was penultimate.

This is my penultimate column with The Current and Gazette Newspapers of Atlantic and Cape May counties. In other words, it's my next to the last column. I've never used the word "penultimate" in any ...

He was courteous enough, receptive, and, as fate would have it, had just canned a columnist the week before I arrived in his office, but there was no doubt that Ralph Hall was a nervous man. Yet as ...

My wife and I have often talked about creating a list of fun words and occasionally nominate new entries to the list. There really is nothing to specifically qualify a word for entry, it just has to ...