Words evolve, Jill

Reclaiming the 'nudist colony' term

Sign on the beach at Cap d'Agde. (Photo: Appraiser/Wikimedia Commons)

It’s not a term you see often in mainstream media, but it pops up every once in a while in headlines, like this one on the Springfield News-Leader site: “Pokin Around: I'm looking for a nudist colony because, well, a reader asked me to.”

It’s actually a pretty good column, and use of th…