Dot Wordsworth

The compound word describes what the vulgar press calls a supermoon

The two oldest senses are found less in newspapers than in books

Context is the means by which native speakers learn the meaning of words

My husband wins a small chocolate sprout each time he spots a word

Kingsley Amis, in a letter to The Spectator in 1995, attributed to ‘fastidiousness’ the rise of tidbit in preference to titbit