Old Hat (Warning: Adult Content!)

By Anne Curzan. I recently reread the brilliant New Yorker piece by Jack Winter titled  “How I Met My Wife,” as I prepared for a short radio segment about negative words that don’t have positive counterparts. Winter plays with dozens of “missing” positive words in the short essay, from “shevelled,” “gruntled,” and “chalant” to “persona grata” and “sung hero.” Read more...