Trevor Bryden was an editorial cartoonist who ran a multi-paneled cartoon strip for a number of years that featured British Columbia’s provincial legislature. Now retired he has been indulging an interest in the evolution of words and phrases in the English language. Naturally he could not resist the temptation to illustrate some of the unusual and quirky examples in cartoon form. He is in the process of compiling a collection of “Illustrated Word and Phrase Origins” that will both inform and entertain his readers while, at the same time, stimulate an interest in the history of words.”