Floriography was popular in Victorian times. Bouquets called tussy-mussies were sent as coded messages, allowing the sender to express feelings that couldn't be spoken aloud. You could say almost anything with flowers, in the right combination.

If you are a young marriageable girl away from home, you can live in a woman's hotel, residence club, or the YWCA; all of these, conventionally speaking, satisfy the grundiest Mrs. Grundy.

Hence we have shown in our treatise On Families, that a life accompanied by wedlock is to be precedaneously chosen by the wise man; but a single life is not to...

The Times puzzle is full of crosswordese – words nobody ever heard of, he said. Take today March 10. He's got the clue 'corn mush.' The answer is 'samp.' Then there's 'dwarf buffalo.' The answer is 'anoa.' It's laughable. I know these words because I'm in the business. But why should you?