No type of panelling is more beloved by the designers who feature on our pages than tongue and groove, the simple style of interlocking boards that we see again and again in every room of the house.

Tongue scraping, which involves using a tool—yes, called a tongue scraper—to gently remove bacteria, dead cells, and other debris from the surface of the tongue—is far from a new trend.

A California woman has set the Guinness World Record for the longest tongue (female) in the world. Chanel Tapper's extraordinary tongue, measuring 9.75 cm long (3.8 inches), is twice the length of ...