Reclaiming Our Words #1 – The Pejorative “Princess”

“He’s a bit of a princess.”  The owner was describing his slightly neurotic male Weimaraner to a few of us at the dog park. The juxtaposition of these opposing gendered terms stuck in my auditory processing unit as I walked Frida home. I thought about the times I used the same term to describe my …

Word of the Day – Penultimate

Word of the Day – Penultimate We humans, even those who are not Twitter-addicted former US Presidents, love our superlatives. From time to time I hear this word in the context of something being more than ultimate. Some years back, a senior Canadian Army officer, started talking about “the penultimate sacrifice.” I recently heard the …