contributorOrin Hargraves
State-of-the-art technology now allows the Loungeurs to detect usage infractions in real-time; this month we share recent findings with our visitors, along with tips that will help you slip your weasel word into the mainstream.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversHarmless Drudgery and its Antidote    June 1, 2007
This month we open the kimono for lounge visitors and reveal why Samuel Johnson, all those many years ago, characterized lexicographers as harmless drudges.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversBewitched, Bedazzled, and Bewildered May 1, 2007
We have bedizened the Lounge in old-fashioned language this month and invite visitors to behold.
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We're foraging in the Lounge this month and don't even need to visit the Language Larder to do so; all the food is at our fingertips.
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This month the Loungeurs enter the hurly-burly of one of language's more perplexing questions: why it always feels nice to say it twice.
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This month in the Lounge we take three trips without leaving the farm, thereby making our small contribution to reducing modern travel's huge carbon footprint.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversWhat Do You Do When You're Branded?  January 1, 2007If you prefer to eat your Day-Glo Jell-O straight out of the Frigidaire in a Styrofoam cup and don't know how else to say it, this month's column is for you. Continue reading... |
