The words we choose can change attitudes — and change lives. A swing-dance instructor has switched to gender-neutral language when teaching couples. He says that using words like “leader” and “follower” actually works better than using gendered...
A listener in Shreveport, Louisiana, reports that after a fine meal, her father used to announce, “I have dined sufficiently, and I have been well surossified.” It’s a joking exaggeration of the word satisfied. In a 1980 article in American Speech...
Elizabeth in Princeton, Texas, remembers her late father, who grew up in Snowflake, Arizona, finishing a meal with “I am sufficiently suffonsified. Anything more would be purely obnoxious to my taste. No thank you.” The mock-grand phrase means he...