Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Playing Settlers of Catan on my phone

The "martiallawsey marses” and “Pompery” in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939)

“The war in Iraq” and the triumph of sarcasm: Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child” in the mid-oughts in the United States

Anecdotes about “cancel culture” in the form of jokes

Two cases in football when the video assistant referee can intervene, and one similar case where they cannot

The wedding cake ordered by Angelina Grimke and Theodore Dwight Weld for their wedding in May 1838