Did Gary Owen invent the word insegrevious? And is there a category for words that can mean anything you want them to? This is part of a complete episode.
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Did Gary Owen invent the word insegrevious? And is there a category for words that can mean anything you want them to? This is part of a complete episode.
Humpty-Bump Pull Top, Diamond Loop, Reverse Shark’s Tooth, Hammerhead, and Goldfish from the Top are all names of aerobatic maneuvers recorded in the Aresti System, designed by Spanish aviator Jose Luis de Aresti Aguirre as a means of...
If you reeeeeeeeeally want to emphasize something in writing, you can engage in what linguists call expressive lengthening, or making a word longer by repeating letters. It’s an example of paralinguistic restitution — rendering in text...