Craft Beer Review: The Word Craft Means Almost Nothing Now
Craft Beer Review: The Word Craft Means Almost Nothing Now | It meant small and independent, and then the definition was bought, and four multinationals own most of it
Tag: word drift
Outpost Review: The Lounge Is Doing Nothing and the Word Is Empty
Outpost Review: The Lounge Is Doing Nothing and the Word Is Empty | A lounge used to promise a chair you could stay in, and charge extra for it, and everybody understood
Freaks and Geeks Review: A Geek Was a Fairground Performer Who Bit Heads Off Chickens
Freaks and Geeks Review: A Geek Was a Fairground Performer Who Bit Heads Off Chickens | One of the most complete reversals in English, and the word used to be the lowest thing at the carnival
Libertine Review: A Libertine Was Originally a Freed Slave
Libertine Review: A Libertine Was Originally a Freed Slave | The Latin means freedman, it became a religious dissenter, then a rake, and the drift is one of the strangest in English
Brera Review: A Lounge Was Where You Lounged and the Word Is Doing Nothing
Brera Review: A Lounge Was Where You Lounged and the Word Is Doing Nothing | Every bar in Britain calls itself a lounge, and the word has been emptied completely
Enterprise Review: The Word Meant Risk and Now Means Scale
Enterprise Review: The Word Meant Risk and Now Means Scale | An enterprise was a hazardous undertaking a sensible person would not have started, and now it means a company with a procurement department
Lockdown Review: The Word Meant Prison and Then It Meant All of Us
Lockdown Review: The Word Meant Prison and Then It Meant All of Us | A piece of American penal jargon that entered every household in the world within about a fortnight
Lobby Lounge Review: Twelve Reviews, and Two Dead Words in One Name
Lobby Lounge Review: Twelve Reviews, and Two Dead Words in One Name | A lobby you wait in, a lounge you lounge in, and neither word is doing any work at all
Lounge Review: Sixteen Reviews, and the Word Is Doing Nothing At All
Lounge Review: Sixteen Reviews, and the Word Is Doing Nothing At All | A lounge used to promise a chair you could stay in, and charge you extra for it, and everybody understood