Saturday, March 6th, 2010
I'm back with more judgmental declarations about the way people speak.
Why am I qualified to make these declarations? Because William Safire is dead and I'm not.
Today's edition focuses on the work of a number of broadcasters who discuss basketball for a living and the pet phrase they misuse consistently.
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Now that William Safire has died, it seems the responsibility for commenting on this nation's usage of its unofficial "official" language falls to me.
It's a daunting endeavor, but one I embark on nonetheless.
The first linguistic issue to be addressed is our culture's recent over-reliance on one specific noun.
That noun? DOUCHE.
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