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disposophobia
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Schedule-blurb summarizing a TV-show episode tonight:......
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October 05, 2008 17:48
Fun usage #5: “to pirouette”
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From today’s paper, #5 of 5, on conveniently changing one’s political position:......
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September 27, 2008 08:17
Fun usage #4: “pixel-packing mama”
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I love this one! From today’s paper, #4 of 5:......
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September 27, 2008 08:15
Fun usage #3: “Schadenfreude is not a policy”
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From today’s paper, #3 of 5:......
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September 27, 2008 08:12
Fun usage #2: “ad hoc-ery”
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From today’s paper, #2 of 5:......
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September 27, 2008 08:10
Fun usage: “metonym”
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I found several interesting usages in today’s Wall Street Journal. I’ll post separately, to facilita......
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September 27, 2008 08:06
Clean his clock
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I heard someone say, "He'll clean his clock," meaning 'dominate; overpower; win utterly". Where do......
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September 04, 2008 10:12
Physicists Humor
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It seems that improvisational comedy is being taught to the CERN-collider physicists studying subato......
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September 04, 2008 08:34
Reading in your sleep!
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The things you find while looking for other things! Here's a 1924 newspaper account of training me......
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September 03, 2008 08:43
"Porphyria" and colors
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A doctor discussing the disease ......
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September 01, 2008 09:55
What kind of deal is this?
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The radio has been airing an annoying ad-jingle that puns on the word ......
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August 27, 2008 19:51
'Faux-mosexual'
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Apparantly a new word has been created. A ......
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August 24, 2008 19:26
OED odd on sex?
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This was prompted a thread where Proofreader notes the sexual meaning of the term ......
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August 16, 2008 09:48
RE: Civilization
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Interesting question, Asa. I tried to approach it by looking up the earliest usage in OED. The diff......
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August 08, 2008 16:58
"debris": pronunciation
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On the radio, I was surprised by how a BBC pronouncecd the word ......
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August 08, 2008 11:45
Fish pedicure
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Not related to anything linguistic or important, but you might enjoy this article titled ......
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August 04, 2008 20:11
Cross words about crosswords
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The local paper has long had a crossword puzzle, each accompanied by the previous day's solution. Re......
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July 04, 2008 17:03
RE: Words better known as negatives
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July 03, 2008 05:21
Favours and Favourites
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What was the now-obsolete meaning of being the ......
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June 29, 2008 12:19
"get" sunbeams from cucumbers"
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Recently, reading Swift’s ......
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