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Word Court Renders Split Decisions Aug. 24, 2022
Larry Brautigam of Berlin, Connecticut, was watching the banter of some TV pundits when he suddenly ... Read More
Coming Clean on Word Origins Dec. 29, 2021
"It's as clean as a whistle," my father would often say after washing the family car. I always thoug... Read More
Here Come the Speech Police Jul. 10, 2020
Recently, I ran across a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays out four racist words and phra... Read More
Language of the 2010s: It Was What It Was Jan. 01, 2020
Well, that was fun. Whatever you call the past decade — "the Teens," "the Twenty Tens," "the T... Read More
The Disinformation Campaign Jun. 01, 2018
The human mind can focus on only so much — and President Donald Trump has been exploiting this... Read More
A Broadcast Gone Terribly Wrong Aug. 24, 2016
We begin our newscast with breaking news from Charlie Jargon with the Channel 99 mobile newsroom . .... Read More
Unscrambling Some Common 'Eggs'pressions Feb. 12, 2014
Is there any connection between the phrase "egging someone on" (inciting someone to action) and actu... Read More
