On YouTube: Words That Have Lost Their Better Halves by Arika Okrent

Books / Education / History

On YouTube: Words That Have Lost Their Better Halves by Akira Okrent

 

How come some words only have a grumpy, negative version? Here are a few that used to have happier counterparts, but we stopped using them. Produced for Mental Floss

Get the book by Arika Okrent — In The Land of Invented Languages

Related Posts:

  1. On YouTube: Negative Words That Turned Into Positive Words via Arika Okrent
  2. On YouTube: Whole Phrases Hidden in English Words by Arika Okrent
  3. On YouTube: French Phrases Hidden in English Words via Arika Okrent
  4. Phrases I Use: Short Shrift
  5. What I’m Reading…Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney
Back to Top