Vocabulary

'Sleep tight' is a very well-used phrase in many parts of the English-speaking world. It's common at bedtime in the form of the rhyme "good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite". Adorable!
Namby-pamby: childish and weakly sentimental.
It’s amazing to learn how words are thought up. Listen to this story!
In 1714, the English poet and playwright, Ambrose Philips became tutor to George I's grandchildren and he started writing poems in praise of the children. These were written in rather affected and insipid nursery language, of the 'goody-goody' sort. Later on, his contemporaries Henry Carey, John Gay, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift combined the nursery reduplication in Philips' work with his first name and came up with a nickname for him - Namby-Pamby. The term began to be used to describe a style of ineffectual writing soon afterwards. Eventually, the direct insult to Philips became a new form of general underestimation and 'namby-pamby' entered the language to refer to anything weak or ineffectual.

Language

Hello girls! In this section I'd like to post any interesting stuff I find in connection with language. The aim of this is to enrich our language level. Of course, this is only just a step, there are many other things we should do if we want to achieve that aim.