The word Neck figures prominently in the English language.
Some days, your coworker is “a pain in the neck”. Some days, she may frustrate you so much that you could “wring her neck”.
Your boss can “breathe down your neck” pressuring you to finish that report by the end of the day. And you don’t know how you are going to get it done because you are “up to your neck” in so much work.
You can “stick your neck out” to help a friend in trouble.
And on and on.
The problem with talking about the Neck is that over time it becomes its own thing. Continue reading “How Language Shapes Us”
