Lunatic fringe
That hair.
Words of the day: pith, gist
Where do they come from?
Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day
A couple: two? A few? Several?
“I heart my dogs [sic] head”
Numerous news items on heart state that the OED had added the symbol ♥. Not so. It’s a new definition of the verb heart that has been added.
Graphite-grey
I was (and am) very happy about hitting upon that phrasal adjective, which, as far as I could tell, had never been applied to the Blackwing pencil. (And then borrowed without attribution by California Cedar.)
Word of the day: aegis
Pallas Athena borrows the keys to the aegis from Dad.
Random Title Exhibit Generator
“Apposite Banality: The Dysfunction of the Local”
WTF
An inappropriate word in a Blogger-generated URL
The plural of Prius, continued
“Unlike, say, campus, prius is a Latin adjective and adverb, not a noun. And Prius is not a Latin word; it’s the name of a car. Priuses makes better sense to the eye and ear, at least to my eye and ear.”
The plural of Prius
It’s Prii.
Language and labor
Worker, or employee?
Town-talk
As used in Dickens’s Bleak House
Michiko Kakutani, messy
Overusing the word “messy.”
Eric Schmidt, literally
Literally.
Close reading Taco Bell
“Two things strike me here: the verb to start (‘We start with 100 percent USDA-inspected beef’) and the identification of oats and soy as seasoning.”
"The white stuff”
A tiresome phrase
Information and its discontents
Pick a field, any field, and think of people who are competent in it: are they “retaining information”? No: they know stuff.
Google and Caps Lock
"I don’t think the absence of Caps Lock is a step toward the disappearance of capital letters — like, say, the G in Google."
The twelve days of Christmas
A Wordle by Ben Leddy
Word of the day: quincunx
With a passage from Sir Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus
"It's spitting"
Snow and language
Rosanne Cash, John Boehner
"You asshat!"
Another word for today: ineluctable
As found in Ulysses
Prepend?
A puzzling word in TextEdit
Sparky Anderson on language
Three twos!
"Wheelchair dude" in our Macs
Some disgraceful phrasing from Oxford University Press
Van Dyke Parks on arranging and words
Endlessly quotable
Word of the day: tyke
Yikes, what an etymology
Door supervision in the news
Door supervisors, or bouncers?
Garner's Usage Tip of the Day
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