Why I Love The English Language, no. 1
First — and who knows, perhaps last — in an occaisioned series.
One of the reasons to love this grand instrument is that it erupts into sentences that are wholly comprehensible, wonderful, even, that my enormously literate and sometimes word-drunk father would not have known how to decipher. From today’s Times, this:
“What I love is that in coed Ultimate, girls can huck the disc just as well as the boys.”
That’s hucking the verbiage; I’m a happy man this morning.
