Round the Sphere Again: Fun with Words

Spelling Dilemma
‘Tis a mystery why there’s so much confusion, but perhaps Isaac Watts bears some of the blame. (World Wide Words)

There’s an Outcry
Remember the hue test? It got me wondering what the hue in “hue and cry” means. Turns out it doesn’t refer to color at all. (World Wide Words, again. If you like this sort of thing, you’ll want to put this website in your feed reader.)

Old English
A few retronyms. (Schott’s Vocab Blog)