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Don't make me unfriend you
The Word of the Year parade makes a stop at the New Oxford American Dictionary, which named unfriend (as in “If you don’t stop writing annoying comments on my Facebook wall, I will unfrien… more →
Mighty Red Pen
Don't make me unfriend you
mighty red pen wrote 1 week ago: The Word of the Year parade makes a stop at the New Oxford American Dictionary, which named unfriend … more →
It's a crime if you can't rhyme
mighty red pen wrote 2 weeks ago: In this episode of the children’s television program “Arthur,” Binky Barnes finds … more →
He's a poet and he didn't know it
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mighty red pen wrote 3 weeks ago: Now I’ve heard it all. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is being accused of sending s … more →
If Dictionary Day falls in the forest . . .
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mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: I love the dictionary, really I do. Remember that scene from “Say Anything” when Lloyd D … more →
David Foster Wallace: "More syllables is just puffed up"
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mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: David Foster Wallace responds to the question, “What’s wrong with genteelisms like … more →
Remembering William Safire
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: By now, the news has spread rapidly through Wordnerdlandia that New York Times language columnist Wi … more →
Imagine a word nerd's worst recurring nightmare
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mighty red pen wrote 3 months ago: Check out poet Taylor Mali and “The The Impotence of Proofreading.” Yes, it says the twi … more →
Demented and sad, but social
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mighty red pen wrote 3 months ago: In college, my roommate and I could send ourselves into giggles with our rapidfire recall of lines f … more →
That's a wicked good frappe
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mighty red pen wrote 3 months ago: Check out “Regional Dictionary Tracks the Funny Things We Say” about the Dictionary of … more →
And the beat goes on
mighty red pen wrote 4 months ago: Earlier this week on the Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien and William Shatner reimagined Alaska gov … more →
It seems sort of obvious
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mighty red pen wrote 4 months ago: Haven’t read “Fewer Copy Editors, More Errors” by Andrew Alexander, Washington Pos … more →
Staycation, all I never wanted
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mighty red pen wrote 4 months ago: I don’t know why, but it strikes me as funny just right now that memory foam (“a dense polyure … more →
Is this some kind of joke?
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mighty red pen wrote 5 months ago: Hmm, I dunno. This tidbit appeared in the Onion, so I guess it’s meant to be a joke, but raise … more →
Elizabeth Darcy, all a-Twitter
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mighty red pen wrote 5 months ago: I don’t know what it is about Jane Austen that makes people want to mess around with her works … more →
@ last
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mighty red pen wrote 6 months ago: You probably never realized how much you really wanted to know more about that little @ sign, which … more →
Under my umberlla, erlla, erlla
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mighty red pen wrote 6 months ago: Okay, so here it is in a nutshell: according to The Daily Mail, a man named Kieran Toulson bought a … more →
Ten blogs word nerds will love
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mighty red pen wrote 6 months ago: Meander on over to blogs.com, where you’ll find MRP’s list of 10 Blogs Word Nerds Will L … more →
A matter of style
mighty red pen wrote 6 months ago: Here’s a twofer from The New York Times: From Philip B. Corbett, “Hyphens: Too Many or T … more →
Say goodbye, say hello
mighty red pen wrote 7 months ago: So MRP was disappointed to learn today that one of my favorite bloggers, John McIntyre at The Baltim … more →
