Ruthie in One Big Happy continues her grappling with English vocabulary: You might think that outrageous and contagious are not very close phonologically — /awtr/ vs. /kǝnt/ — but they are rhyming trisyllables in a very small lexical space: courageous is the only other such word of any frequency. So in the lexicon that Ruthie might … Continue reading Outrageous, contagious, whatever