language change — Blog — Sue Butler

over-egging

I love the verb to over-egg. It is not a word that has high frequency these days. In British English it began life as the phrase to over-egg the pudding.

language changeSue ButlerMarch 25, 2020Comment

The cultural divide

Two great texts have had profound influence on the English language – the works of Shakespeare and the King James version of the Bible. Both have left us vocabulary items, but more importantly, they have left idioms – stereotypes – stories that we all share.

language changeSue ButlerMarch 18, 2020Comment

name changes

We now have competing naming systems, the naming system of the scientific community and that of the community at large who have not caught up with pterosaurs and are still talking about pterodactyls.