It’s a factoid only Scrabble devotees might know, but there are more than 1,000 words that end in ‘ism’, which indicates a specific practice, system, or philosophy. Herewith two additions, one of which has a less than slim chance at success, the other I just invented as a hopefully viable alternative.… Read the rest
It’s four generations late, but being late is supposedly “fashionable”, which means “newspeak”, the term coined in 1949 by George Orwell in his dystopian novel “1984”, is right on time in 2023. The welcome is embodied in three seemingly unrelated but in fact “peas in a pod” phenomena: Prince Harry’s “Spare”, social media ‘influencers’ and fashion advertisements.… Read the rest