Grant Barnett’s lexicographical blog

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Today’s entry talks about using quotation marks for emphasis around a word; he calls them “shout” or “scare” quotes. An earlier entry discusses the wherefores of deliberately pronouncing words wrong– an entertainment I enjoy, I admit. And still earlier, his list of new catchwords includes “Throw a Porsche at someone” which still has me giggling. (Derived from expensive war missiles, it could be extrapolated to mean spending inordinant amounts of time and/or money on any problem)

A far less amusing entry explains the term “Bloody Pocket syndrome”.