abby
n.— «Have you seen this week’s edition of Newsweek? It’s all about the boomer generation—of which I am one of them. According to the article, boomers have played a key roll in defining every decade since the 50’s. First we were hippies, then yuppies—now apparently we are “abbies”—or aging baby boomers.» —“The Abbies Are Here!” by Louise Roach SnowPack: B-Fit Blog Nov. 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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