[ExGeeEye]

This is why we eat “beef”, not “cow”, and polite people say “manure” when they meant “sh

[PUGACHEV]

George Orwell wrote an ever-timely essay on how Latin words, which came to us from the Norman conquest, "[fall] upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details". It's worth a read.

Politics and the English Language

[Mrs. Don-o]

I was just gonna say that! You rascal, you copied me beforehand!!

[T-Bone Texan]

Polite people say “saliva” rather than “spit”.