Blog future
I've been thinking for the past couple weeks, intermittently, about what to do with this blog. It was originally going to be a place for me to post early cites...
Archive for February, 2007
German
A piece of spam this morning led me indirectly (by way of a quotation) to Mark Twain's 1880 essay "The Awful German Language," an entertaining complaint about the difficulties of...
What a to-do to die today
Someone just encountered my 1997 Words & Stuff column on elocution and wrote me to ask about elocution. Which led me to look at the column again, which led me...
freeze victims
I was very amused by this headline from One Bakersfield Online today: Bills would provide $1.2 billion to freeze victims in California Turns out it's referring to money that would...