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Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I Thought They Were Hibernating

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White House Says Bears Part Of Blame For Senate Loss --Reuters headline Language Log » An ursine crash blossom
Thursday, January 14, 2010

How Do You Say...?

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So it seems that we're pronouncing "Haiti" wrong. Or are we? Language Log » Hatey?
Thursday, October 22, 2009

What I'm Reading

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Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Reader...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Substance Over "Style"

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John McIntyre reviews a book about Strunk and White's Elements of Style . In apparent disregard of Rule 9 (“Do not affect a breezy manne...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Where There's a Will...

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Mark Liberman on George Will's pronoun-counting . How in the world did our culture award major-pundit status to someone whose writings ...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Thoughts While Waiting for the Clothes to Dry

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When did "mic" become the dominant spelling for the short form of "microphone"? I see it everywhere in newspapers and on...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Killing the Mood

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Everybody who's taken a foreign language has encountered the dread subjunctive mood. We anglophones can pretty much dodge it -- we get t...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Eke and Eye

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John McIntyre on the cliche beat: Two articles in this morning’s Baltimore Sun reach for the same cliche with reference to the late Sen. Ed...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Why Everything You Learned in Freshman English May Be Wrong

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When I was an English teacher -- a long, long time ago -- Strunk and White's Elements of Style was venerated. And apparently it still ...
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Buh-Bye, "Bi"

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Ken Jennings analyzes the president's vocabulary.
Sunday, November 30, 2008

What's in a Name?

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A nurse I hadn't seen before was hanging my IV bag the other day when I noticed her name tag. "Is your name Arsenic?" "Ar...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Or Maybe Betting on the Wrong Tree?

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"Everybody was barking at the wrong horse." --UC-Berkeley engineering professor Leon Chua on the development of a new circuit cal...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Words Fail Me

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Damn the New York Times! They just made my work harder.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Words, Words, Words

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I'm always late to the party, but I just discovered the Language Log blog, which I've added to my blogroll. Wonderful, witty comment...
Monday, January 7, 2008

Department of Redundancy Department: It's Always Better When It's Free

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Headline in today's Mercury News: Free gift coming for Xbox 360 owners
Thursday, January 3, 2008

What Year Is It?

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Amid the calls to ban wood-burning fireplaces and to neuter dogs and cats, the anti-immigration and anti-tax diatribes, the denunciation of ...
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

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For the news media, the Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo is the gift that keeps on giving. Especially since celebrattorne...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Go With the Grain

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Freerice.com is an intriguing site that claims to do two things: help you build your vocabulary and feed the world's hungry. I'm no...