Words contained in other words
de-arrested
I would think that this de-arrest will come dear, but perhaps not dearer than de arrest.
shonky
Such a great sounding word, too. Shonky.
Swaziland renamed to Kingdom of eSwatini
over-egg the pudding
The black pudding were so black that even over-egging yon just made 'er blacker, it did.
Ed is not the only Anglophile here.
For musings by an American linguist now living and teaching in Sussex on the differences between American and British English, an entertaining blog (with equally entertaining comments) is at Separated By a Common Language, written by the entertainingly-pseudonymed Lynneguist. I may pull interesting things from her archives in the future for further examination, but for now, […]
The old side-eye
Only peripherally about words, or for that matter stuff.
The Grammar of ’Splaining
On WHYY’s “Radio Times” this week, in discussing Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, host Marty Moss-Coane asked her guest, “So what kind of ’splainin to do does Mark Zuckerberg have?” I’m just charmed by the construction of her sentence. It refers, of course, to one of the great Lines That […]
Hangry and smad
There are surely more examples of these blended portmanteau emotions, but “hangry” (hungry + angry) has become a major part of my kids’ lexicon, and “smad” (sad mad) was made memorable by a mention in Gilmore Girls. I find hangry in particular quite useful as a reminder to check for HALT (Hungry Angry Lonely Tired) […]