Verbatim : from the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists by McKean, Erin, editor instant download

Verbatim : from the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists by McKean, Erin, editor instant download

\"A Harvest original.\", An intolerant view of intolerance / Laurence Urdang -- Intolerable intolerance, redux / Erin McKean -- Noun overuse phenomenon article / Bruce D. Price -- Pleonasties / Harold J. Ellner -- Unraveling the American place-name cover / Frank R. Abate -- Unofficial sectional city names / Frederic G. Cassidy -- New blood in the namestream / John Tittensor -- Onomastica nervosa / Laurence Urdang -- Sussex speak / Bel Bailey -- Socko names / George W. Turner -- Galling gallicisms of Quebec English / Howard Richler -- English as she is spoke / Michael Gorman -- Sexual intercourse in American college dictionaries / Sidney I. Landau -- How big is your dictionary? / Robert Ilson -- Eccentricity in English lexicography / Elmer Suderman -- The seating of Zotz / Walter C. Kidney -- Self-referring words / Alexander J. Pollock -- Nullspeak: a question of rotating strawberry madonnas / Steve Bonner -- Polysemania, semantic taint, and related conditions / John Ellison Kahn -- Tosspots and wraprascals / Andrew E. Norman -- Quasi malediction: the case of linguistic malentendu / D.G. Kehl -- Lingua collegiensis circa 1850 / Charles Lafayette Todd -- Slayer slang / Michael Adams -- Of eating rubber and sno-cones / Gerald Eskenazi -- Fanguage / Greg Costikyan -- Winking words / Philip Michael Cohen -- Clown talk / Thomas H. Middleton -- Mantic mania / Robert Devereux -- Identity and language in the SM scene / M.A. Buchanan -- Instant Welsh / Michael Vercambre -- Neve ask a Uruguayan waitress for a little box: she might apply her foot to your eyelet / John R. Cassidy -- From Za-za to San-san: the climate of Japanese Onomatopoeia / David Galef -- Hocus pocus / William Brashear -- Our playful vocabulary / Burt Hochberg -- On again, off again, Finnigan / J. Walter Wilson -- \"My name is Hanes\" / Gerald Cohen -- On blue moons, and others / Nick Humez -- The Twenty-third Psalm and me, or Has the nightingale become a crow? / Grace Hollander -- The \"wicked\" Bibles, or…