If you’re a grammar snob, or maybe you’re just terrified of sounding less-than-literate, check out The Grammarphobia Blog. Yesterday’s entry: adult entertainment. There we learn that “[t]he use of ‘adult’ as a euphemism for sexually explicit (as in ‘adult cinema’ or ‘adult entertainment’) dates from only 1958, according to the OED. The earliest published reference [...]
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