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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

WTOP FM 103.5, Washington, D.C.

WTOP FM, an FM news-talk radio station in Washington, D.C., featured Double-Tongued in its drive-time today. WTOP Reporter Evan Haning sent me two different MP3s of the news story: version 1 (34 sec., 544K), version 2 (36 sec., 572K). There’s also a full-text version. (Source Link)

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Monday, March 20, 2006

New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

I finally received a copy of the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. It’s a brand-new two-volume dictionary, edited by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, building off the work of Eric Partridge and concentrating on new world-wide Anglophone slang since 1945. At some point in the next few weeks I’ll do a review of it and Jonathon Green’s Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang. This is despite the fact that editors and authors dread—loathe, despise, condemn, resent, and expectorate on—comparison reviews. It won’t be a contest between the books, merely a rumination on their contents and significance.

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Tearing Down the Brooklyn Bridge

You know, if you choose to misunderstand this cutline from the New York Times, you can let yourself believe they’re tearing down the Brooklyn Bridge:

The Purchase Building, a little Art Moderne structure under the Brooklyn Bridge whose razing was recently approved.

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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Fedders House

Today the New York Times, in a story about the “Fedders’ Curse,” linked to DTWW for its Fedders house entry. (Source Link)

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Friday, March 17, 2006

Ha-ha

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, a ha-ha is “a ditch with a wall on its inner side below ground level, forming a boundary to a park or garden without interrupting the view.” I did not know that.

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