The obituary of the quondam Rebekah Coronado was interesting and sad. I agree with her that it's a challenge being a performer of "a certain age and weight."
I didn't believe it about "uppity" in 2008, and I don't believe it now. In close to seven decades on this planet, I have only heard it used in conjunction with persons of color.
"Yesterday, Merriam-Webster had a question for us: 'If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?'
I happened to run across the familiar confusion of heroin/heroine yesterday, prompting me to remark that I wished "heroine" were pronounced as I used to mispronounce it in childhood, hero-een (to rhyme with "Halloween") so that it'd be easier to distinguish narcotics from female protagonists.
The obituary of the quondam Rebekah Coronado was interesting and sad. I agree with her that it's a challenge being a performer of "a certain age and weight."
I didn't believe it about "uppity" in 2008, and I don't believe it now. In close to seven decades on this planet, I have only heard it used in conjunction with persons of color.
Grotesque indeed.
"Yesterday, Merriam-Webster had a question for us: 'If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?'
I happened to run across the familiar confusion of heroin/heroine yesterday, prompting me to remark that I wished "heroine" were pronounced as I used to mispronounce it in childhood, hero-een (to rhyme with "Halloween") so that it'd be easier to distinguish narcotics from female protagonists.
And here I wasted “potpourri” on a previous piece
Interesting meditations as always, Jay. Thank you.
"On X yesterday—isn’t that a somewhat brutish name for “Twitter”?"
Yes it is, so I now call it 'TwiX'. A bit better, eh?
Yes!