If you’re an empty nester, you’ve probably wondered about a term for one’s grown offspring. Do you use the term adult children? How about kid-ults? Since the 1960’s, the term has also been used in the marketing and...
Martha describes a funny linguistic misunderstanding she had while trying to read Harry Potter in Spanish. This is part of a complete episode.
Time for another linguistic mystery. Where would you be if you decided to go twacking around duckish, and then you came home and wrote about it in a scribbler?
squeefully adv.— «It was, in the parlance of the fandom, “squeefully” exciting.» —“Visiting the set of ‘Harry Potter’ (part 1)” by Cheeser Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator May 22, 2007. (source:...
lay down date n.— «Booksellers have been required to refrain from selling the book until then, in what is known as a “lay down” date in the publishing world, a tactic typically used for giant best-selling books such as the...