The Lexicographer's Rules

The woman who is in the middle of the terror funding brouhaha? Tracy Henke? I went to high school with her. She was in the year above mine at Buchanan High School in Troy, Missouri.

Oh, yeah, one more thing: today Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary celebrated its two-year anniversary.

And another: last night I got my first copy of my new book, The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English. It looks great! Much better than the last one.

Sorry for the bad kind of up-and-down that Double-Tongued and this site have been undergoing today. There’s apparently another user on the shared box who is tying up MySQL. Alas, I’m nowhere near being able to afford the $200 a month hosting plan that lets me have a MySQL server all to myself (nor do I have the resources or time to install and manage a co-located server).

Two of my favorite bloggers got nice mentions in the Daily News today. Notice I didn’t say favorite female bloggers. Shouts out to Maud and Dana, though Dana deserved a full paragraph in the story, not a passing mention. Also mentioned are three other bloggers I’ve met, Jen, Meg, and Elizabeth. All very nice.

I laughed at the line in the story “some female bloggers [go] by only [their] first name[s] only because of security- or job-related issues.” Perhaps “security” is a nice way of saying “so men are less likely to perv on them, stalk them, or send unsolicited photographs of male anatomy.” Not me, other people! Maud’s and Dana’s alter egos are safe with me.