This is my first journal entry for 2018. I've been keeping language observations recorded in a notebook or on my phone, so I'll be transferring many of them to this blog. Some are extended entries, but most are random observations and queries. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy posting them!
Trump Speak
(I will be adding to this post as the semester progresses...) For a sociolinguist, President Trump's tweets are a treasure trove of l...
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One of my students recently brought a phrase to my attention having to do with cheese sliding off of a cracker. I had never heard it, so ... -
I'm going to start a running list of interesting linguistic tidbits from television commercials: A commercial for cat litter ends wit...
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Despite my having studied language and linguistics for decades, I'm always running across new words, or words that are new to me at lea...
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