shakespeare bustApparently, Gen Alpha keep saying “six seven” – a phrase which, unhelpfully, seems to be basically meaningless. As the LA Times put it, “The lack of meaning behind the phrase has seemingly given it the ability to show up everywhere and for kids to find any reason to shout it out and laugh.”Still, I couldn’t help but think of the phenomenon while reading Jane Austen’s Catherine, or The Bower, recently. The book used the phrase “at sixes and sevens” – e.g. “everything as she expressed herself be at sixes and sevens” – a couple of times. And in