As a term for a child, William Dunbar's Flyting (c. 1500) is usually cited as first use; but Dictionaries of the Scots Language questions whether Dunbar's use means "child" or "garment." The child sense is clearly attested by 1530s. The transferred meaning is perhaps from the notion ...
I jumped on the Captain Marvel bandwagon at the same time everyone else did – when Kelly-Sue started writing her solo book. (A pattern? To heck you say!) And I’ve been meaning to go back and read the rest of Princess Sparklefists, but there’s no hurry, right? As it is,Captain...
many of them being tagged with the label simply because of their age and because they had, at some point, been cast in a film that was geared toward teenagers or young adults. In 2024 McCarthy told reporters that the label “represented a seismic cultural shift” in which “movies were ...
4.2. Meaning of Scale Growth Directions To investigate the meaning of scale growth orientations, friction forces on overlapped scales were measured using AFM with a needle-type probe and three kinds of scanning directions (Figure 4). As a result, the friction forces were larger or smaller at ...