What words have told me recently

monissaw wanted more detail of changes in word culture I've noticed over time in my rather random reading and watching. That's the stuff of another PhD thesis (it was something I used to know a bit about for Old French, but that's another story, another country and besides, the wench is middle-aged) and far too much for a blog post. Possibly not too much for chat over drinks at Worldcon - drinks liberate us from caution over what we ought to say in a short space of time.

Anyhow, rather than ...