Plain prose pretty much the polar of purple
Remember the beige craze of the 2000s?
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Remember the beige craze of the 2000s?
Purple prose is a style of overly ornate, elaborate language most often reserved for descriptions of intimate interactions in paperback romance novels and teenage love poems.
When you think about the color purple, what comes to mind? Probably the movie “The Color Purple.” That makes sense.
Oronyms, which are also known as continunyms or sliceonyms, are phrases or sentences that sound the same but are spelled differently.
I’ve written before about mondegreens – song lyrics people mishear. Many of you mistake Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” line as “Hold me closer, Tony Danza.” Today’s column is along those