Lederer on Language: I invite you to play a letter-perfect game of charade words
When I was a boy (and dinosaurs trampled the earth), the game of charades was wildly popular. In that competition, some of the players tried to guess a word or phrase from the actions of another player who was not allowed to speak but who broke up the word or phrase into parts by gesturing. Although few of us play the game of charades these days, charade words abound, words that can be meaningly cleaved into smaller words: Nowhere in the Union-Tribune have you ever seen charade words, but they are NOW HERE. I am so wordstruck that I drive […]
