Comments on Etymology
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Read more: Comments on EtymologyAllan Metcalf mentions Comments on Etymology, an on-paper newsletter edited by Gerald Cohen. Allan says, “for anyone seriously interested in the origins of American expressions, especially slang ones, CoE is indispensable. For anyone not-so-seriously interested, it’s entertaining and engaging.” The…
Jan. 1999 NADS
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Read more: Jan. 1999 NADSThe January issue of the Newsletter of the American Dialect Society (a.k.a. NADS) should be in members’ snail mail boxes by now. Otherwise, you can download it in PDF format. You’ll need Adobe Acrobat to view it.
1998 Words of the Year
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Read more: 1998 Words of the YearIt is just a single letter of the alphabet, but the hyphenated prefix e- loomed so large in American discourse in 1998 that members and friends of the American Dialect Society at their annual meeting voted it Word (or perhaps…