Full disclosure: I love technology. I grew up at a time when pocket calculators and digital watches seemed like the cutting edge. We weren’t that well off, but my Dad won a competition for – wait for it – predicting the future of the office, and the prize money went on a ZX Spec...
Othercontronymsare the result of two different words that sound similar merging at some time in the past. An example of this process is the word cleave, which may mean to separate one thing from another or may mean to cling together. Cleave is derived from the Old English word clēofan wh...