Will in Austin, Texas, feels a little odd every time he uses the expression funnily enough. Although the phrase is grammatically correct, it still feels awkward to say. In part, that’s because the adjective funny ends in the letter Y, but...
Duncan from Brooklyn, New York, says his friends say dumb brick, where dumb works as an intensifier and brick means “very cold.” The adverbial dumb, as in dumb rich or dumb cold, has been documented since the 1700s and appears to have developed as a...