Blog Excerpts

Slang-orama!

In Sunday's New York Times Book Review, Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer has the back-page essay on the latest in slang dictionaries. You can read it online here, and you can listen to Ben's discussion with Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus in the weekly podcast here. Also check out Ben's Artsbeat blog post on a 1699 slang dictionary.
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Books:
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
Highly Entertaining and Informative
Language:
Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
Brand Names of the Year for 2021
Usage:
Comparative Nonsense
Unexpected Cousins