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Talking about words—archive

Essays on language from Michigan Today

• Hopefully or full of hope? (February 2012)
• Now I lie, er, lay, um... (October 2011)
• An awesome mess (September 2011)
• Is "problematize" a problem? (July 2011)
• Don't asteriks* me (June 2011)
• Bailey's words (May 2011)
• Last words (April 2011)
• Arabic words (March 2011)
• Grand Rabbits (March 2011)
• Finding words (February 2011)
• Jewish words (January 2011)
• Dead words (November 2010)
• The Germans and Division Street (October 2010)
• More Michigan English (September 2010)
• Michigan English (July 2010)
• Michigan my Michigan (June 2010)
• Declaring independence (May 2010)
• Babel (April 2010)
• Synonyms (March 2010)
• Fissiparous English (February 2010)
• Spaces (January 2010)
• Canadian, eh (November 2009)
• Shakespeare's words (October 2009)
• Marginal words (September 2009)
• Woo-woo words (June 2009)
• Obsolete words (May 2009)
• Car names (April 2009)
• Good words: The work of John Updike (March 2009)
• Txt? omg! (February 2009)
• Elderspeak (January 2009)
• Artistique words (November 2008)
• Campaigns and slogans (October 2008)
• Pigskin (September 2008)
• My Word ^® (July 2008)
• Strangelets: words from physics (June 2008)
• Eating words (May 2008)
• Trophies (April 2008)
• Dank: teen slang (March 2008)
• The hip hooray and ballyhoo (February 2008)
• Us and them (January 2008)
• What's the point? (Pity the poor apostrophe) (October 2007)
• MySpace Generation (September 2007)
• Cloth words (July 2007)
• Figures of speech (February 2007)
• Erasing words (January 2007)
• Don't say words badly (December 2006)
• How many words are enough? (November 2006)
• Rehabbing words (October 2006)
• Dead words (September 2006)
• Future words (August 2006)
• Exuberant words (July 2006)
• Split infinitives (June 2006)
• Gimme Grammar (May 2006)
• Let's have a look-see (April 2006)
• Breakteeth words (March 2006)
• Bassackwards (February 2006)
• Funny spelling (January 2006)
• Small words (November 2005)
• Big Words—or how the English language got so bodacious (October 2005)
• You could look it up (September 2005)
• wOOt! (August 2005)
• Yooper—it's Michigan's second language, eh? (July 2005)
• Watch your language! (June 2005)
• Exporting English Part 3: Hip-hop hood (May 2005)
• Exporting English Part 2: Syllabaries are where it's @ (April 2005)
• Exporting English Part 1 (March 2005)
• Botoxed, burger, bra, zoo and other whacked words (February 2005)
• Whatever! (January 2005)
• Eating crow, hot-dogging it and other animal metaphors quick and dead (December 2004)
• Yada, Yada, Yada (October 2004)
• Okey-dokey, culture-vultures: echo away! (September 2004)
• You say "spi-NOSH," but I say "SPIN-itch" (August 2004)
• Like, wow! (June 2004)
• Explain yourself (May 2004)
• Local language (April 2004)
• "Prexy" (February 2004)
• Presidentess (January 2004)
• Phat (December 2003)
• Squatchetery (November 2003)
• A CRISP acronym (October 2003)

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