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"[T]hey're in charge of the United States Senate"
Sarah Palin and "they"
Bupkes
What it means and why
Happy birthday, Noah Webster
Yale celebrates an alum
Joe the plumber
A new cliché in American politics
Domestic comedy
"Towheaded?"
Exuviation in progress
Words disappearing from a dictionary
John, also
The most frequently used words in the vice-presidential debate
Three questions
Bailout? Investment? The question shapes the answer.
Plethora
Why does anyone use this word seriously?
Domestic comedy
Is it a dearth, or a plethora?
Fungible
Huh? What's it mean?
Capital "I"
Why do we capitalize "I"?
I am nonplussed
What does "nonplussed" mean anyway?
Minimus, minimi
Names for the smallest fingers and toes
I.e., Sunday
Another way to say "Sunday": circumlocution
Old house, new concept
"Open concept kitchen/dining/living area"
What a mystery looks like
"Salted seersucker," an Asian market mystery solved
Wordle
Online tool to make a word cloud from text or del.icio.us tags
Cereals in the hands of an angry blog
No. 21: analysis of sloppy Post cereal box design and copywriting
Guerdon
The winning word from the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Hart Crane's The Bridge
Oveness
Invented word, from Google character-recognition letters
How to improve writing (no. 20 in a series)
Avoid the odd and opaque word when it doesn't fit the context
"Working, hard-working Americans"
The language of race in the Clinton campaign
Extinction
Slot-machine design lingo
How to improve writing (no. 19 in a series)
Pita bread, not pizza bread
Ad hoc
Meanings of this phrase
Going on break
It was always "go on," never "take a." Remembering life in discount department stores.
Confusing metaphor of the day
The glass ceiling
James Carville's metaphors
Just words, right?
Strained political metaphors of the day
Carpetbagging beaver! Drunken horse! Tired as dogs! From Erica Jong : We have two great candidates — one a hard working, never give up eager...