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Alongside books, I’ve contributed more than 500 articles, blogs, and interviews, both online and in print, to publications including The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and i, The Telegraph, BuzzFeed, The Big Issue, Mental Floss, and The Byline Times. As full an archive of all published articles possible is listed here.
2022
29 October 2022, The Belfast Telegraph | A word by any other name: Everyday words with surprisingly origins
10 October 2022, Reader’s Digest | 10 Unique old-fashioned insults you didn’t know you needed
18 February 2022, The Telegraph | How Wordle started sending everyone into five-letter fits of fury
27 January 2022, The Telegraph | The Proverbs We Have Loved and Lost
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2021
1 October 2021, Writers’ Forum | Research Secrets: Paul Anthony Jones
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2020
23 May 2020, The Guardian | An A to Z of Words to Calm and Inspire Hope
27 April 2020, NARC Magazine | Soothing Words For Troubled Times
5 March 2020, The Telegraph | The Vocab Test: What Did You Score?
29 January 2020, Mental Floss | 30 Surprising Things The Queen Owns
14 January 2020, Mental Floss | 13 Times the British Royal Family Broke Official Protocol
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2019
13 December 2019, Mental Floss | 15 Long-Lost Words To Revive This Christmas
12 November 2019, Mental Floss | 40 Strange Wedding Gifts Given To Royals
8 November 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Hugger-mugger
1 November 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Proctor’s bulldog
25 October 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Necromorphous
18 October 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Undermimic
12 October 2019, Considerable.com | How An Encounter With Jefferson Sparked A Catchphrase
11 October 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Scowth
4 October 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Public house bargain
27 September 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Ettercapped
20 September 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Seagull manager
13 September 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Scofflaw
6 September 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Zivilcourage
16 August 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Toad-eater
2 August 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Polemomania
26 July 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Demonagerie
19 July 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Eye-servant
12 July 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Corbie-messenger
5 July 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Involution
28 June 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Bloviate
21 June 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Whipmegmorum
14 June 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Aberglaube
7 June 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Caciquism
31 May 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Mebby-scales
25 May 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Spleiter
17 May 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Broggle
10 May 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Hang-Choice
3 May 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Straddlebug
26 April 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Recrudescence
19 April 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Stratagemous
12 April 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Poacher-Turned-Gamekeeper
5 April 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Expugnancy
28 March 2019, Byline Times | Word of the Week: Mentimutation
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2018
30 November 2018, Standfords | 10 Place Names That Ended Up In The Dictionary
11 November 2018, NARC Magazine | Paul Anthony Jones’ Top 5 Geordie Words
10 July 2018, Mental Floss | Dollar Words: The Logophile Game That Has Maths Geeks Hooked
8 May 2018, Mental Floss | 25 Strange Wedding Gifts Given To Royals
9 April 2018, Mental Floss | 11 Things That Are Forbidden In The British Parliament
5 April 2018, Mental Floss | 17 Hilarious Definitions From Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
5 March 2018, Mental Floss | 18 Words To Welcome Spring
6 February 2018, Mental Floss | 13 Mnemonic Sentences To Boost Your General Knowledge
18 January 2018, Mental Floss | 25 Smart Synonyms You Should Be Using
5 January 2018, Mental Floss | The Tiger that Briefly Terrorized 19th Century London
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2017
29 December 2017, Mental Floss | 10 Old Words For Winter Ailments We Need To Bring Back
22 December 2017, Mental Floss | 4 Dickens Christmas Stories You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
22 December 2017, Mental Floss | When German Children Made Kites From Money
28 November 2017, Foyles | 10 Long-Forgotten Words For The Festive Season
23 November 2017, Quartz | The History Of The Word “Turkey” Is Ridiculously Complicated
30 October 2017, Mental Floss | 4 Phonetic Alphabets That Didn’t Survive
26 October 2017, Waterstones Blog | 12 Obscure Words Every Book Lover Should Know
16 October 2017, Mental Floss | 10 Facts About Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
10 October 2017, Mental Floss | 25 Words That Don’t Mean What They Used To
10 October 2017, Mental Floss | 25 Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do
10 October 2017, Mental Floss | 25 Smart Words You Should Be Using
10 October 2017, Mental Floss | 25 Words You Didn’t Know Were In The Dictionary
6 September 2017, Mental Floss | 5 Poems With Amazing Wordplay
2 September 2017, Mental Floss | 7 Other Great Fires of London
22 August 2017, Mental Floss | The Dangerous History Behind The Word “Deadline”
3 August 2017, Mental Floss | Paul Wittgenstein: The One-Armed Concert Pianist
31 July 2017, Mental Floss | 10 Long-Forgotten Expressions To Drop Into Conversation
14 July 2017, Mental Floss | 6 Times Multiple Leaders Reigned in a Single Year
11 July 2017, Mental Floss | 15 Words That Aren’t As Straightforward As They Look
6 July 2017, Mental Floss | 15 Obscure Words For Everyday Feelings And Emotions
27 June 2017, Mental Floss | 10 Body Parts Hiding In The Dictionary
14 June 2017, Mental Floss | 10 Composer vs. Composer Insults
5 June 2017, Mental Floss | How Rome’s Scariest Ghosts Gave Their Name To Madagascar’s Lemurs
31 May 2017, Mental Floss | 15 Unusual Patron Saints
18 May 2017, Mental Floss | 30 Excellent Terms From a 17th Century Slang Dictionary
17 May 2017, Mental Floss | Tax Your Brain With 5 Victorian Riddles
16 April 2017, Mental Floss | The Shakespeare Fraud That Tricked Late 18th Century London
19 April 2017, Mental Floss | 8 US City Names That Might Have Been
14 April 2017, Mental Floss | 41 Facts About The 41 Kings And Queens Since 1066
4 April 2017, Mental Floss | The 19th Century Aristocrat Who Literally Painted The Town Red
20 March 2017, Mental Floss | Pink Used To Be Yellow (No, Really...)
8 March 2017, Mental Floss | The Mysterious 19th Century ‘Princess’ Who Fooled A Town
8 March 2017, Mental Floss | 11 Words Coined 100 Years Ago
7 March 2017, Mental Floss | ‘Fake’ Etymology: One Of The Dictionary’s Most Intriguing Words
23 February 2017, Mental Floss | The Two Highwaymen Who Took Each Other To Court
13 February 2017, Mental Floss | Would You Have Passed This 1920s Pronunciation Test?
10 February 2017, Mental Floss | 30 Loanwords To Add Some Je Ne Sais Quoi To Your Vocabulary
26 January 2017, Mental Floss | 10 Backwards Words That Ended Up In The Dictionary
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2016
29 December 2016, Mental Floss | Wilson A Bentley: The Man Who Photographed Snowflakes
26 December 2016, Mental Floss | When Elizabeth I Organized A National Lottery
20 December 2016, The i | The 12 Words of Christmas: Ice-Legs, Yule-Holes, And More
14 December 2016, Mental Floss | 13 Alternative Lyrics From ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’
2 December 2016, Mental Floss | The Story Behind Lewis Carroll’s Unsolvable Riddle
24 November 2016, Mental Floss | How A Sketch Became The World’s Most Repeated TV Program
23 November 2016, Mental Floss | 7 Rarely Used Orchestral Instruments
22 November 2016, Mental Floss | 14 Word Origins Hiding In Plain Sight
16 November 2016, Mental Floss | 7 Surprising Buildings That Were Once The World’s Tallest
11 November 2016, Mental Floss | 8 Extraordinary Examples of Constrained Writing
10 November 2016, Mental Floss | From Ham to Sandwich: 40 Odd British Place Names
3 November 2016, Mental Floss | When Roosevelt Tried To Reform The English Language
2 November 2016, Mental Floss | 7 Rarely Used Orchestral Instruments
28 October 2016, Mental Floss | Why Do Criminals Go ‘On The Lam’?
26 October 2016, The Guardian | 10 Words That Don’t Mean What They Used To
26 October 2016, The Mirror | The Fascinating Former Meanings of 10 Everyday Words
18 October 2016, The Telegraph | 10 Popular Word Origins That Are Absolute Codswallop
18 October 2016, Mental Floss | How A Misinterpreted Anagram Predicted the Moons of Mars
16 October 2016, Mental Floss | 10 Facts About Webster’s Dictionary For Dictionary Day
12 October 2016, Mental Floss | Why Do We Call General Knowledge ‘Trivia’?
10 October 2016, Mental Floss | The Original Endings of 3 Famous Fairy Tales
6 October 2016, Mental Floss | 10 Unexpected Emblems From Flags of the World
3 October 2016, Mental Floss | Beyond ‘Buffalo Buffalo’: 9 Other Repetitive Sentences
30 September 2016, Mental Floss | The Cipher Wheel Designed To Decode Shakespeare
23 September 2016, Mental Floss | The Earliest Known Descriptions Of 5 US Landmarks
20 September 2016, Mental Floss | The Tiger Who Came To Tea... In The Middle Of Yorkshire
20 September 2016, Mental Floss | From Bae To Zee: 38 False Friends
14 September 2016, Mental Floss | What Exactly Is A ‘Wild Goose Chase’?
5 September 2016, Mental Floss | The Language Of Addiction
2 September 2016, Mental Floss | 8 Things Invented By Accident
25 August 2016, Mental Floss | 15 Animal Names That Can Be Used As Verbs
25 August 2016, Mental Floss | When Australia Went To War With Its Emus
15 August 2016, Mental Floss | 15 Obscure Words Every Pet Owner Needs In Their Vocabulary
9 August 2016, Mental Floss | 10 Classic Politcal Insults
8 August 2016, Mental Floss | The Riot Caused By A Performance Of Macbeth
4 August 2016, Mental Floss | 12 Things You Say Without Realizing You’re Quoting Poetry
2 August 2016, Mental Floss | William Banting: Early Champion Of The Low-Carb Diet
28 July 2016, Mental Floss | 50 Verbose Verbs To Drop Into Everyday Conversation
18 July 2016, Mental Floss | 11 Words That Started Out As Spelling Mistakes
12 July 2016, Newcaslte Chronicle | 15 Well Known Geordie Words And Where They Came From
11 July 2016, Mental Floss | How 20 Animals Got Their Names
5 July 2016, Mental Floss | ‘Opus Clavicembalisticum’: The Longest Piece Of Piano Music Ever
27 June 2016, Mental Floss | 14 Delicious Words For Anyone Who Love Their Food
16 June 2016, Mental Floss | Just How Magic A Word Is ‘Abracadabra’?
15 June 2016, Mental Floss | 15 Words For Gossips And Chatterboxes
8 June 2016, Mental Floss | 5 Essential Types Of Words That Some Languages Do Without
1 June 2016, Mental Floss | 10 Terms That Come From Theatre
24 May 2016, Mental Floss | Who Was Old King Cole (And Why Was He So Merry?)
23 May 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Excellent E-Words To Enchance Your Vocabulary
16 May 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Super S-Words To Supplement Your Vocabulary
13 May 2016, Mental Floss | The Only 5 Natural Features In The US With Possessive Apostrophes
12 May 2016, The Telgraph | ‘They’: The Singular Pronoun That Could Solve Sexism?
9 May 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Awesome A-Words To Advance Your Vocabulary
6 May 2016, Mental Floss | 20 Anglo-Saxon Remedies From Bald’s Leechbook
3 May 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Tremendous T-Words To Titivate Your Vocabulary
25 April 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Intriguing I-Words To Introduce To Your Vocabulary
24 April 2016, The Independent | 10 Shakespearean Insults That Work Better Than Modern Ones
23 April 2016, Telegraph Men | 20 Words Shakespeare Used Differently To You
22 April 2016, Mental Floss | 38 Facts About Shakespeare’s 38 Plays
19 April 2016, Mental Floss | 10 Ridiculously Precise Units of Measurement
18 April 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Opulent O-Words To Optimize Your Vocabulary
13 April 2016, Mental Floss | Pharaohs Were Made To Run Around Their Palaces Every 3 Years
5 April 2016, Mental Floss | 7 Everyday Phrases That Have Been Rephrased
5 April 2016, Mental Floss | The Original Telephone: The Musical Language of François Sudré
4 April 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Nifty N-Words To Enhance Your Vocabulary
1 April 2016, The i100 | 10 Of The Most Commonly Confused Words In The English Language
29 March 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Rip-Roaring R-Words To Refresh Your Vocabulary
17 March 2016, The Independent | 10 Of The Most Commonly Misused Words
14 March 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Highfalutin H-Words To Heighten Your Vocabulary
8 March 2016, Mental Floss | 20 Bizarre Beasts From Ancient Bestiaries
7 March 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Dandy D-Words To Deepen Your Vocabulary
4 March 2016, Mental Floss | 15 Words You Didn’t Know Could Be Used As Verbs
29 February 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Linguipotent L-Words To Enlarge Your Vocabulary
23 February 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Cracking C-Words To Complement Your Vocabulary
18 February 2016, Mental Floss | The King of Scotland’s Peculiar Language Experiment
17 February 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Magnificent M-Words To Maximize Your Vocabulary
17 February 2016, The Huffington Post | You Really Always Can’t Believe Your Eyes
10 February 2016, The Huffington Post | No Excuses! Why And How Writers Should Use Twitter
8 February 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Fantastic F-Words To Further Your Vocabulary
1 February 2016, Mental Floss | A Misjudged Act Of Piracy Gave The Tongan Currency Its Name
26 January 2016, Mental Floss | 19 Old Cold Weather Words To Get You Through Winter
25 January 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Peculiar P-Words To Pep Up Your Vocabulary
21 January 2016, Mental Floss | The Meanings Behind 20 Chemical Element Names
19 January 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Wonderful W-Words To Widen Your Vocabulary
14 January 2016, The Huffington Post | 10 Things You Might Not Know About Shakespeare
12 January 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Grandiloquent G-Words To Grow Your Vocabulary
5 January 2016, Mental Floss | 40 Brilliant B-Words To Brighten Your Vocabulary
2015
27 December 2015, The Independent | Where The Words You Used At Christmas Originate
24 December 2015, The Independent | 11 Christmas Words The English Has Forgotten
23 December 2015, Mental Floss | 40 Useful Y-Words To Add To Your Vocabulary
23 December 2015, The Telegraph | 21 Obscure Christmas Words You’ve Never Heard
18 December 2015, Mental Floss | 7 Real-Life Inspirations For Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
16 December 2015, The Huffington Post | 50 Fantastic Facts About The English Language
14 December 2015, Mental Floss | 40 Unusual U-Words To Upgrade Your Vocabulary
11 December 2015, The Independent | The Hardest Word Quiz You’ll Take This Year
8 December 2015, Mental Floss | What Exactly Are Your P’s And Q’s?
7 December 2015, Mental Floss | 40 Killer K Words To Add To Your Vocabulary
2 December 2015, Mental Floss | 40 Vibrant V-Words To Revamp Your Vocabulary
30 November 2015, Mental Floss | The Real-Life Criminal Who Inspired Charles Dickens
24 November 2015, Mental Floss | 35 Joyous J-Words To Jazz Up Your Vocabulary
11 November 2015, Mental Floss | 40 Xcllent X-Words To Excite Your Vocabulary
5 November 2015, Mental Floss | 5 Writers Who Really Hated Shakespeare
3 November 2015, Mental Floss | 40 Zesty Z-Words To Add To Your Vocabulary
2 November 2015, Mental Floss | 17 Job Titles In Victorian Slang
29 October 2015, Mental Floss | How Europe’s Best Doctors Tried To Cure Beethoven’s Deafness
20 October 2015, Mental Floss | 11 Words And Phrases You Didn’t Know Had Opposites
15 October 2015, Mental Floss | The Time That William Shakespeare Gave Evidence In Court
12 October 2015, The Bookseller | The Origins of 10 Publisher’s Names
9 October 2015, Mental Floss | 8 US Presidents Who Spoke More Than One Language
8 October 2015, Mental Floss | The Origins of 14 Cocktail Names
1 October 2015, Mental Floss | 5 Countries That Existed For Less Than A Year
30 September 2015, Waterstones | 5 Words And Phrases Derived From Mistranslations
28 September 2015, BuzzFeed | Do You Actually Know The Meanings Of These Misused Words?
25 September 2015, BuzzFeed | 53 Wonderfully Pointless Facts About The English Language
19 September 2015, Mental Floss | The Tiny English Village (Pop: 41 ) That’s Twinned With Paris
15 September 2015, Mental Floss | Tom Skelton: The Serial Killer Court Jester
11 September 2015, The Huffington Post | 7 Novelists Who Only Published One Novel
9 September 2015, Mental Floss | How Do Britain’s Two Longest-Reigning Monarchs Compare?
3 September 2015, Mental Floss | 30 Words and Phrases From Victorian Theatrical Slang
1 September 2015, The Independent | Common Words You’re Probably Misusing
31 August 2015, Mental Floss | 20 Pieces of Advice From Old Tudor Proverbs
25 August 2015, Mental Floss | The World’s Top 20 Languages
19 August 2015, Mental Floss | The Origins of 9 Royal Nicknames
10 August 2015, Mental Floss | 10 Famous People Who Fought Duels And Lived To Tell The Tale
4 August 2015, Mental Floss | Another 50 Words That Sound Rude (But Really Aren’t)
1 August 2015, The i100 | How Good Is Your Vocabulary?
31 July 2015, Mental Floss | How Shakespeare Changed America’s Wildlife
28 July 2015, Mental Floss | 20 Brilliant Anglo-Saxon Words
23 July 2015, Mental Floss | The Parrot That Kept A Language Alive
16 July 2015, Mental Floss | Charles Dickens, a.k.a. “The Unparalleled Necromancer”
10 July 2015, Mental Floss | 10 Vacation Destinations That Ended Up In The Dictionary
6 July 2015, Mental Floss | 32 Long-Forgotten Weather Words
26 June 2015, Mental Floss | 10 Little-Used Shakespearisms
22 June 2015, The Telegraph | 10 Words You Didn’t Know Were Derived From ‘Father’
19 June 2015, Mental Floss | 15 Surprising Words That Are Probably Onomatopoeic
11 June 2015, Mental Floss | 20 Words That Don’t Mean What They Used To
3 June 2015, Mental Floss | 9 Bizarre Objects Owned By Henry VIII
2 June 2015, Mental Floss | 10 One-Letter Place Names
19 May 2015, Mental Floss | 12 Old Timey Ways Of Saying ‘Nonsense’
14 May 2015, Mental Floss | 40 Quirky Q-Words To Add To Your Vocabulary
12 May 2015, Mental Floss | William Shakespeare’s Father: Official Ale-Taster Of Stratford
30 April 2015, Foyles | When Dictionaries Get It Wrong
27 April 2015, Mental Floss | When Arthur Conan Doyle Judged A Bodybuilding Contest
20 April 2015, Mental Floss | How A Practical Joke Brought 19th Century London To A Standstill
10 April 2015, Mental Floss | Louis De Wohl: The Astrologer Hired By MI5
7 April 2015, Mental Floss | Why Is It ‘Zed’ in Britain, But ‘Zee’ In America?
2 April 2015, Mental Floss | How Thomas Jefferson Invented A New Way Of Saying ‘Goodbye’
25 March 2015, Mental Floss | When Samuel Johnson Became A Ghostbuster
17 March 2015, Mental Floss | 28 Brilliant Irish Words
17 March 2015, The Huffington Post | 17 Words Invented By James Joyce
12 March 2015, Mental Floss | 23 Notoriously Unrhymable Words (That Actually Have Rhymes)
3 March 2015, Mental Floss | 18 Everyday Expressions Taken From The Bible
23 February 2015, Mental Floss | 42 Old English Insults
18 February 2015, Mental Floss | 28 Misleading Misnomers Explained
10 February 2015, Mental Floss | 17 Bizarre Work-Related Ailments
4 February 2015, Mental Floss | The Proper Names of 17 Bodily Functions
28 January 2015, Mental Floss | 25 Words That Are Actually Acronyms
21 January 2015, Mental Floss | What 12 Distant Places In The Solar System Are Named After
16 January 2015, Mental Floss | A Month-by-Month Guide To The Anglo-Saxon Calendar
10 January 2015, Mental Floss | 22 2-Letter Words To Boost Your Scrabble Score
2014
23 December 2014, Mental Floss | The Origins of 12 Christmas Words
17 December 2014, Mental Floss | 10 Words Shakespeare Used With Unclear Meanings
10 December 2014, Mental Floss | 10 Tragic Stories of Extinct Animals
9 December 2014, The Huffington Post | 100 Random Facts About The English Language
8 December 2014, The Huffington Post | Gone For Good: The Long Lost Works of Literature
5 December 2014, Mental Floss | 20 French Phrases You Should Be Using
2 December 2014, Mental Floss | 12 Animals Named After The Noises They Make
1 December 2014, The Huffington Post | #MyFavourite Word 2014
26 November 2014, Mental Floss | 10 Words & Phrases Coined In Comics
21 November 2014, Mental Floss | 21 Rhetorical Devices Explained
14 November 2014, Mental Floss | 10 Little-Known Units Of Time
12 November 2014, The Huffington Post | Say What? The Literal Meanings Of 30 English Words
10 October 2014, Mental Floss | 50 Old British Dialect Words To Drop Into Conversation
29 October 2014, Mental Floss | 10 Words With Spooky Etymologies
23 October 2014, Mental Floss | 16 Words Derived From Animals
16 October 2014, The Huffington Post | An A-Z Of Noah Webster’s Forgotten Words
15 October 2014, Mental Floss | 15 Words That Are More Interesting Than They Seem
10 October 2014, Mental Floss | 19 Colours You’ve Never Heard Of
29 September 2014, Mental Floss | 10 Mind-Boggling Paradoxes
18 September 2014, Mental Floss | 16 Cryptids That Might (Or Might Not) Exist
9 September 2014, Mental Floss | 30 Old (And Useful) Names For Body Parts
5 September 2014, The Huffington Post | The Inspiring Stories Behind 15 Classic Novels
1 September 2014, Mental Floss | 60 Of History’s Strangest Epithets
1 September 2014, The Huffington Post | The Day Jobs Of 20 Famous Authors
26 August 2014, Mental Floss | 25 Words For Other Words
19 August 2014, Mental Floss | 29 Games Nobody Plays Anymore
12 August 2014, Mental Floss | 22 Old Nicknames For Animals
7 August 2014, Mental Floss | 21 Slang Terms From World War I
4 August 2014, Mental Floss | 26 First Names In The Dictionary
29 July 2014, The Guardian | Bluebeards & Brainiacs: Literary Characters In The Dictionary
28 July 2014, Mental Floss | 50 Words That Sound Rude (But Really Aren’t)
18 July 2014, Mental Floss | 20 Latin Phrases You Should Be Using
23 June 2014, Mental Floss | 13 Word Origins Stories (That Are Completely Untrue)
19 June 2014, The Huffington Post | 66 Facts About The English Language
17 March 2014, The Huffington Post | 15 Words Derived From Irish Gaelic
5 March 2014, The Huffington Post | 11 Places In Britain You Should Have Heard Of
24 February 2014, The Huffington Post | Great British Ghost Towns
20 February 2014, The Huffington Post | 13 Words Coined By Authors
15 February 2014, The Guardian | From ‘A’ To ‘Ampersand’
11 February 2014, The Huffington Post | The Extraordinary Origins of 11 Ordinary Words