Tuesday 24 February 2015

Wilde

Wilde: adjective. Uncontrolled or unrestrained in terms of literary creation. This word was created by the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language in honour of the great playwright Oscar Wilde in the year 1850, which is interestingly several years before Wilde was born. The word was created to describe the emerging literary creations in the world of novels and poetry, where such risqué material was appearing, such as the showing of ankles.

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