Topic : LanguageDog EaredBooks we love"Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide March 18, 2019 By Nancy Friedman
Is Dreyer's English "utterly correct"? Of course not, as the author would be the first to acknowledge. But it's compulsively readable, thoroughly helpful, and delightfully funny. For anyone who cares about writing well, it's an utterly essential addition to your shelf of most-reached-for reference books.
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Just as there are oodles of food trucks, there are mega-oodles of language emetics in the form of euphemisms. Please hate enjoying or enjoy hating the following.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversThat Only Happens in the Movies March 4, 2019 By Orin Hargraves
Linguistics and Big Data have been a fruitful partnership since they first found each other, and new hookups with promising results are happening all the time. Here's a small sampling of the riches to be found in two new corpora — the TV Corpus and the Movie Corpus.
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Article Topics:Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and newEngaged, Vintage, Deleted Drivel, Begob! February 11, 2019 By Mark Peters
Here are some of the euphemisms I've scraped, like barnacles, off the bloated boat of language. Do not attempt such hazardous, horsepucky-adjacent collection yourself.
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversTeach Your Children Well February 1, 2019 By Orin Hargraves
What happened (and is apparently still happening) in English-speaking societies that results in so much discourse about the problems in education? Here is some fodder for the discussion.
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Article Topics:Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and newWhat, By Gosh, is Euphemism of the Year? January 9, 2019 By Mark Peters
It's that time of year when I choose a Euphemism of the Year. I've whittled the list down to four candidates, which are the lexical equivalent of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexiconThe Year of "Tender Age" January 7, 2019 By Nancy Friedman
For the first time ever, a euphemism been chosen as the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. The winning term has an innocent sound that masks a sinister reality.
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