Posts Tagged ‘language’

Spanking: what’s in a word?

01Dec12

Yesterday I had a cute email from someone who said they liked my blog and that they had been into spanking forever. They even remember looking up the word spanking in the dictionary. I wonder how many people did that. Sometime ago, someone else said that their earliest memory was reading a book where a […]


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Parcel of Brats

04Jul11

Don’t you just love the English language? Who would have thought, but the language of Shakespeare does have an official collective noun for brats. It is apparently a parcel of brats. Karl used the phrase when he said he was reminded of a parcel of rogues. We had some good suggestions, including some for a […]


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