[Magdalen] the word "smart"

[Marion Thompson]

I'm with your grandmother on smart,  ME, hardly surprising as I close in on
82.  An intelligent person would be just that, brainpower and knowledge
mixed.  Bright would be that little bit of canny mixed in.

Marion, a pilgrim

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:30 AM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> We were talking about words yesterday and I remembered:
> my grandmother used the word "smart" to describe someone fashionably
> dressed,
> and a "smart car" was new, shiny, bordering on vulgar.
>
> My mother used "smart" in that sense, too, and also to mean "intelligent,"
>
> To me, a smart person is intelligent and a bit canny,
> and a smart car fits in a tiny parking space.
>
> Words just go on changing.
> No wonder we cling to our BCP.
> -M
>