Benita Bendon Campbell passes on this wonderful bit from Cathy Guisewites’s strip Cathy: Here we get a series of ‘penurious’ items: cost-conscious, penny-pinching, prudent, budget-minded. In the midst of these comes spendthrift, clearly intended to convey ‘penurious’, though in fact its standard use is to refer to a profligate spender. How does this happen? Well, … Continue reading spendthrift ‘penurious person’