For a long time, a familiar cultural lexicon has been in vogue: young women who admitted to voluntary sexual experience risked being labeled "sluts" while male peers who boasted of sexual conquests were celebrated as "studs".
Their place is being taken by a more educated, younger assortment of groupings and individuals familiar with the lexicon of protest and the mores of modern Britain.
American Pharoah's Triple Crown, plus a Breeders' Cup Classic, seems to work nicely into that familiar sports fan lexicon.
Kids who aren't familiar with the lexicon of the shows are "not on top of the pyramid" at school, she added.
Then she checks off descriptions that fit her feelings, from a lexicon familiar to any Mormon — promptings, warnings, burning in the bosom, alignment of heart and mind, pure intelligence.
The forward and backward translation were performed by professionals who were familiar with the lexicon of the field, knowledgeable in both English and Italian cultures.
It is a form of collective insanity". Those who are familiar with the tribal lexicon will have recognised the pointed references: "We [Labour] have always been defined by our internationalism," said Mr Benn, and by "our anti-fascism".
Eponyms – things named after people, real or fictional – generally lose their capital letters as they become more familiar and enter the lexicon: boycott, caesarean, draconian, fallopian, fuchsia, martinet, quixotic and many other words all began life as people's names.
Meanwhile, given the spectacular decline in Mum's mental health, my brother and I have had to become familiar with a whole new lexicon during our urgent quest to find that elusive place – a care home in her local area with at least a "good" rating from the regulator, and an available bed.
Marketing has brought many familiar catch phrases into popularly accepted lexicon, including "where's the beef?" and "do you hear me now?".
The fall-out or "collateral damage" (to borrow yet another familiar word from the modern-day lexicon of aggression) associated with the current financial crisis, we can rest assured, will only exacerbate the incidence of depression along with its personal and societal implications.
