For my previous post, I wrote soberly about Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive. This ...
Chances are likely you’ve never heard of the term “ablaut reduplication.” It was new to me as well when a friend emailed a hard-to-read screenshot of a brief newspaper clipping. Being a word person, ...