If you don't, you could end up talking to people about their unique testes! It never fails to amaze me.

A couple of days ago someone wrote to me and asked if I had heard of 'Corpus Linguistics'.  The first thing that popped into my head was "dead words".  (Corpus - corpse / linguistics - words).  In my mind's eye I saw a load of words lying around, unloved and unused, dying or dead.   […]