Anyone interested in this stuff, definitely read up on gunsel and gooseberry lay if you haven't: https://www.miskatonic.org/gooseberry.html In short, it's a story of Dashiell Hammett setting out to sneak a then-unpublishable bit of slang (gunsel) past his editor, and as a result giving the word an entirely new meaning (which has now become accepted usage).
What a cool website. That article with quotes from Earle Stanley Gardner was great. But some of the other blogs are really cool too, with quotes from Gibson and so on.
We used to find sites like this with search engines, the web gave us this amazing assortment of interesting links.
As others have bemoaned on HN, web search has disappeared as search, and is instead more about advertising. Much like the news. Everything is an advertisement for a position, stance, or viewpoint. Instead of information.
There must be thousands, millions of cool sites like this, yet, how to find them?