Your New Favorite Word

Jamis and Tessa reminisce a bit about previous favorite words. Jamis then talks about the history of “season”, and Tessa tells us about “snowclones”, or adaptable cliché frames.

• Snowclone (Wikipedia)
• Eskimo words for “snow” (Wikipedia)
• IEEE (“Eye-triple-E”=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) article, “Snowclone is the New Cliché”
• Language Log article by Geoffrey K. Pullum seeking a simpler name for adaptable cliché frames
• Language Log article introducing the term “snowclone”