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

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

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