Officially offboarded.

It’s found under “Breathalyse(r)” in KA’s The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage—a book that I suspect would both delight and annoy you.

Amis / Herbert on evaluating coinages’ applications for admission to the language. How would we score “yassification”?

That sentence is possessed. Time for an exorcism.

Re: note 5, I’m struggling with “no end” vs. “to no end.” I’d always assumed that the latter was a slightly idiosyncratic way of saying “endlessly,” not “pointlessly”: “I love it in a way that involves no limit.” I can’t get my head around the syntax of “I love it no end” at all. Help?

Exactly. That was what I meant about paths—more that than etymology. The uninformed reader might see “sojourn” and think, “Ah, another, fancier journey-word.” And think the same of “noisome” and noise-words.

“Journ” is leading the reader down the same sort of path there as “nois” does in “noisome.”

“Shrink azalea” = “drunken sailor” as articulated by a drunken sailor

This reminds me—very much by contrast—of one of the clunkiest adverbs I’ve ever read in fiction: “friendlily” (Philip K. Dick).

The world’s little-known infinite-money glitch

Faith More

INITIATING SHOE LENGTHENING SEQUENCE

LOAD “POMPADOUR”,8,1

WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF YOUR HAIRCUT

FUNCTIONAL HAIRCUT

What mighty yolks from little eggcorns grow.

Apparently water is a good psychological conductor!

I know that grey slushy corner!

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