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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Which word is being described here? Ultimately inspired by a play (a comedy) by a well-known playwright whose surname begins with S, the word was derived from the name of a comic character in that play who often uses the wrong word to describe something, with ludicrous results. This ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) I’m fond of debunking widely believed but factually erroneous ‘truths’ about literature. It’s one reason I began this blog, some years ago when I still had my youthful bad looks. There’s a wonderful word for such truths-that-turn-out-to-be-not-so-true, and it was coined by Norman Mailer in his biography of Marilyn ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The joy of reading an O. Henry story largely resides in the fun of trying to guess the twist in the tale before the end. No other writer of short stories made the plot twist such an integral part of his art, and he kept this up over numerous ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Songs about the open road have been around since … well, at least since Walt Whitman wrote his ‘Song of the Open Road’ in 1856. In popular music, too, songs in praise of cars, roads, driving, and the power and speed of automotive engineering have a pretty considerable pedigree. ...

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