Mar 15, 2016
Catch(y) as Catch(y) Can
Semantic narrowing, semantic broadening, and genericide
Do we use “catchy” for anything other than “tunes”? Me *** Dear You, Not often. “Catchy” used to have a wider meaning, for anything that caught or stuck in the mind. Songs, sure, but also regular prose words, like all those clever quotes that get misattributed to Oscar Wilde. Or even tricky questions, since they caught you up mentally. But these days it’s mostly used to describe that friggin Kit…
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