Fun fact: The ne- in "nest" comes from a word meaning "down," and the -st comes from a word meaning "sit." Nest means "sit down." That and more in this week's newsletter! open.substack.com/pub/onwords/...

Very excited to dig into the new issue from @unchcrosswords.com!

I wrote about Clippy’s ill-begotten siblings. open.substack.com/pub/onwords/...

Got a new one up about Spooner, who DIDN'T commit very many spoonerisms, but DID mix up concepts in some really interesting ways. onwords.substack.com/p/spooner-mi...

Fun post from (I think) @lovefromjack.bsky.social, and a companion puzzle on Big Dave: substack.com/@onwords/p-1... crypticcrosswords.net/puzzles/rook...

Absolute delight to see this revisiting of the unfairly maligned "listicle" era on @talkingpointsmemo.com from @jonallsop.bsky.social. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/seven...

If the Proclaimers walked 1,000 miles due East from their home in Leith, they would fall down in Užventis, Lithuania, with a halfway stop in Denmark. The rest, unfortunately, is water.