Posts by Tory james

Some surnames carry a little map inside them. Mulholland is one of those names, because behind its familiar…

Words sometimes arrive quietly in a sentence and still manage to make the whole sentence feel more formal…

If you have ever seen bomboclat in a meme, TikTok comment, text message, or reaction post, you may…

Some words seem to carry a little more feeling than their dictionary definition lets on. Smitten is one…

When you first come across the word Graf, it can feel like one of those tiny words carrying…

Have you ever received a message that simply says “TTYL” and wondered what those four letters were trying…

Sometimes three small letters can carry more than one story. AJA is a good example because its meaning…

The word Ching can look surprisingly simple, but behind those five letters sits a large piece of Chinese…

Sometimes a name arrives with a little mystery attached to it. Javert is one of those names. It…

The name Javert carries more weight than it first appears to. For readers of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables,…