Discussion in the linguistic world has been swirling of late around a set of peculiar sweary compounds like shitgibbon, wankpuffin, and jizztrumpet. Ben Zimmer reveals their history, Taylor Jones describes their construction, and Gretchen McCulloch discusses their constraints. She also proposes the term shitgibbon compounds, which I think is smashing, and I’m going to use … Continue reading Shitgibbon frequencies