A Little Word Post.

I was thinking earlier about what I might have for lunch tomorrow (because I’m congenitally inclined to need forewarning of all eventualities, however seemingly innocuous they might be) and decided that it should be baked beans on a bagel accompanied by some cherry tomatoes and a large dollop of coleslaw. And then I had a thought:

Do Americans use the word ‘dollop’? It seemed unlikely, although the evidence for the presumption is weak. But if they don’t, I think they should because for all its inherent softness, ‘dollop’ is quite an expressive word.

And that led me further to remember Enid Blyton’s infamous phrase ‘lashings of fresh cream’, and to wonder whether she was responsible for a veritable plague of atherosclerosis among a whole generation of unwary children.

(And then I was shunted into the question of vegans and ice cream, but it went off topic so I decided not to add it. And my final thought was that a person's thoughts are about as close as it gets to defining who a person is. Shutting up now.)