I don’t recommend using any of these. It’s simply for information’s sake if anyone calls you any of these it’s not good. From Mental Floss. A sample: Death’s Head Upon A Mop-Stick Gollum-us Shabbaroon Unlicked Cub (My text correct, just had a party with all that) See the definitions and twenty one more here.
An interview by Julie Beck of The Atlantic featuring N.J. Enfield, a professor of linguistics from Sydney, that explains how vocal fillers like ‘um’ are as much a part of spoken communication as other parts of speech. An excerpt: One of the big traffic signals that manages that is these hesitation markers like “um” and …
This edition of the List Show, hosted by John Green, contains twenty-seven words that have changed meaning over time. It’s interesting to see how in some cases the form of the word still shows the link to other words which have to do with the original meaning, and how what seems like a weird word. …
I was out walking this morning and heard a radio report about the SpaceX Satellite explosion being described as an ‘anomaly’. Apart from a talent for understatement, the spokesperson has given me a new favourite word to describe any disastrous outcome. It’s an ‘anomaly’. Read one report here.
