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Saga vs. Series

Or:   RT @melissa_marr *lit teacher moment* I didn’t write a saga–which is a specific type of text, NOT another wd for “series.”  Thank you, Melissa Marr, author of the Wicked Lovely series, for this...

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Stephen Fry on Language

Here’s a marvelous kinetic typography meditation on the joy of language and the limits of pedantry: Thanks to the lovely LeVar for sharing this via caligater.

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From the dissertation: the Middle French for fart

"Smell my butt!" says the dog. Sanders' Pictorial Primer, 1846 While examining the conflation of children and animals in the etymology of the word pet for my dissertation, I came across a 1950 article...

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