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liuzhou

liuzhou

On 11/25/2020 at 6:50 AM, dtremit said:

OK, as an American calling out a British term, I'm at risk of stepping in it, but: moreish

 

I hate, hate, HATE that word. It is nonsensical and meaningless and even unpleasant to look at in print. And if it's spoken, I always get confused trying to figure out what about a roast chicken or whatever it is could possibly be "Moorish."

 

I'm very late to this party (to which I issued the invites), but I just noticed this while searching for something else.

 

Moreish is NOT really British. Coined by the very Irish Jonathan Swift in 1738. Yes the Gulliver's Travels man. The meaning was clear then and still is. Swift was a noted conservative about language, too and wrote about banning many words no one now thinks twice about.

liuzhou

liuzhou

On 11/25/2020 at 6:50 AM, dtremit said:

OK, as an American calling out a British term, I'm at risk of stepping in it, but: moreish

 

I hate, hate, HATE that word. It is nonsensical and meaningless and even unpleasant to look at in print. And if it's spoken, I always get confused trying to figure out what about a roast chicken or whatever it is could possibly be "Moorish."

 

I'm very late to this party (to which I issued the invites), but I just noticed this while searching for something else.

 

Moreish is NOT really British. Coined by the very Irish Jonathan Swift in 1738, Yes the Gulliver's Travels man. The meaning was clear then and still is. Swift was a noted conservative about language, too and wrote about banning many words no one now thinks twice about.

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