Roundup: Can you put together the pieces of these puzzle

Carole E. Barrowman, The Minnesota Star Tribune

For years, the most beloved part of my personal library was my two-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary (“the OED,” to word nerds everywhere). Poring over its tissue-thin pages, tracing a word’s etymology, scouring a follow-up entry then another and another, realizing hours later I’d fallen down a logophile’s rabbit hole. Bliss.