After reading last week's article on the origin of the spoon/fork combo, known as the spork, Nell Maha of Sarasota e-mailed asking whether I was familiar with the runcible spoon used by Owl and ...

MANY of Edward Lear's poems have nonsensical references to his daily life. The 'runcible' spoon was Lear's way of teasing his friend, George Runcy. Runcy had very modern views (for his day) on ...

A spoon that has little fork-like tines on the end is called, by most normal people, a “spork,” which I think we can all agree is a terrible-sounding word. At best, the word “spork” sounds awkward and ...

A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. The sheer variety of purposes to which the word has been put, however, argues in favor of seeking and settling on one core ...

Cotton Bergeron’s ‘runcible spoon,’ again in pieces after more than a half-century of generational family use, sits atop a modern copy of Edward Lear’s illustration in his 1871 poem, ‘Owl and Pussy ...

WASHINGTON — Malaka Gharib thinks most writers and publications take food too seriously. She, on the other hand, likes to play with it. “I’m not an expert on restaurants in D.C. or an expert in local ...

Late February in the North-East: winter’s lost its novelty, the holidays are over, and all we have left is mud, bad weather and dirty, used-looking snow. It’s hunker down season, the time for Netflix ...