grammargirl,
@grammargirl@zirk.us avatar

Sunday morning language meltdown:

I'm writing an example sentence about buying flowers, and suddenly, "nursery" seems like a weird word to me.

Do we really buy flowers at a "nursery"? It's also where we keep babies.

Sure, we nurture both flowers and babies, but will people outside the U.S. know that a nursery is where we buy flowers???

Maybe I should say "hardware store" instead.

OMG, why do we buy flowers at a HARDWARE STORE...

<runs away screaming>

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