Much to the surprise of everyone, I actually (pretty much) held to my 2010 resolution of writing down the words I had to look up in the dictionary. In 2010, I looked up approximately 105…
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It begs the question, why are you such an annoying pedant?
Ha! I fooled you. That’s not begging the question at all. No, in fact begging the question, is a form of logical fallacy. In this case begging the question would be something like: Jodi is…
I am a word bigot too
I read this post over on HTML Giant about word bigotry and felt a little bit like, “oh, I have found my people.” Sure, sure we all have those words we hate. In fact some…
I’m bringing strumpet back, all those other philanderers don’t know how to act
Earlier this morning while I was working on a review of The Ask (it’ll be on MN Reads tomorrow), I looked up the word philandering. I was doing it more to make sure I was…
Well, we have that in common & a fondness for lugubrious
I am in love with Slate’s list of words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. Circling words would be something I’d do if I still used an old fashioned dictionary. I have a lovely,…
I dream of words
Last night I dreamt I was at a party, or it might have been in class. It was a gathering of people of some sort. I can’t remember what we were talking about but during…