The word fulsome has undergone some real semantic changes over the years. It used to mean “excessive, overly full” negatively, but it’s come to have positive connotations for some, who think it means “copious” or “abundant.” It’s a word that...
Remember getting caught sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G? Grant and Martha wax nostalgic on some classic schoolyard rhymes. What do you call your offspring once they’ve grown up? Adult children? How about kid-ults? Plus, is there really such a thing...
cowpat music n.— «He also gives no sign of recognising, or being interested in, the ways in which arcadian ideals influenced later generations of artists, musicians and poets, including the 19th-century Romantics and 20th-century composers of the...