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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The 55 dirty words you can’t say on broadcast television

Brian Lowry at Variety writes about the 55 dirty words you can’t say on broadcast television, according to the Parents Television Council.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Kick the can

Rob Kyff at the Hartford Courant explores the phrase “kick the can," which seems to be a largely political expression meaning “to put off a decision.”

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Sunday, September 09, 2007

Ich Bin Ein New Yorker

Anna Steegmann, now an English-language novelist living legally in New York City, writes about what it was like to be an illegal German immigrant, struggling with the language and life in the city.

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Hoax, satire, or a mistake?

At Defective Yeti, Matthew Baldwin jabs a few people in the eye for misusing the word hoax.

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Win the Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction!

On the web site for our radio show A Way with Words, my co-host and I are giving away a copy of Jeff Prucher’s book, The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. All you have to do is invent three collective nouns. Make them wow!

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