The answer is they were all invented by William Shakespeare in order to add detail to his scripts. When the exact word he wanted wasn’t available, he would quite often combine verbs and nouns to ...

You probably noticed this place is called Mount Scary. Well, that’s not because of the mountain. Allow me to explain. Y’see, she’s not just a yeti… she’s a scary yeti. Scary is an adjective. An ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Adjectives have always been out there, mobs of them pressing on the outside walls, their faces against the ...