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Pot-pourri, Words

Word Fact: Catch-22

Ever wonder where the phrase “Catch-22″ came from?  For example: You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job”  That type of exasperating situation is often referred to as a “Catch-22”.  The phrase dates… Continue Reading…

Pot-pourri, Words

Word Facts: Album

In 1968, the Beatles released their famous “White Album“.  That title is actually an exercise in redundancy.  The word “album” means, literally, “a blank slate” (from the Latin “albus“, “white.”  In time the meaning came to include a blank bound… Continue Reading…

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