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This is the personal weblog of Grant Barrett, editor of the Double-Tongued Dictionary, a collection of words from the fringes of English. More about this site...
Recent Entries
- Wilf? Yuffer? Get real!
- Lexicographer Laurence Urdang Dies at 81
- A thesaurus can be harmful
- Can bad language punditry be stopped? Can false attributions for classic quotes be fixed?
- There’s one in every country
- Scottish Language Dictionaries fundraiser
- SouthWest Writers
- Disfluencies: What do they mean by “I mean”?
- A hearty endorsement of shout quotes: scare quotes used for emphasis
- How to buy a dictionary
- Jinx and padiddle: games we play
- Saying it wrong on purpose
- Nicknames from the Underground: Busharraf, Chillary, and Killadelphia
- New slang unpacked
- UPDATED: Crosswords in Black and White
Recent Catchwords
- fertigation n. (9/4)
- lobbocracy n. (9/4)
- quiet title n. (9/3)
- plankowner n. (9/2)
- zapper n. (9/2)
- twiller n. (8/31)
- beach nourishment n. (8/31)
- Mottness n. (8/31)
- hubba n. (8/31)
- hole doping n. (8/29)
- foot drop n. (8/29)
- springboard injunction n. (8/28)
- turabosis n. (8/28)
- Truman Show delusion n. (8/28)
- relokill n. (8/27)
- toothpick rule n. (8/27)
- age-doping n. (8/27)
- narcisurfing n. (8/27)
- chemical rapping n. (8/27)
- LPU n. (8/27)
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