Checking In on Worn-Out Words and Phrases: First Quarter 2019
Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 11:00 pm
"Nature abhors a vacuum," Aristotle once said, and the same holds true for language. If we detect an empty lexical space because we feel existing words no longer occupy it well, we will look to fill it, often with something that seems or sounds fresh within our current culture and era. For a time, we …