Words

22 posts are filed under “Words.”

2012

2011

Aug 7 The Long and Short of Average Sentence Length
Jul 23 The Use and Abuse of the Em Dash

2010

2009

Nov 7 Popularity of Words for Numbers
Jan 24 On Colophons

2008

Oct 31 October Surprise or Ambiguous Reference?
Jun 22 The State Motto Grotto
Mar 30 Rhetoric and the Visual Word

2007

Dec 8 XTC’s Go 2: “This is a Record Cover.”
Mar 17 Misspelling for Profit

2006

Aug 21 David Foster Wallace Serves It Up
Jan 15 Interstellar Magnetic Slinky
Jan 5 Product Name-O-Rama

2005

Dec 4 “Don’t Trash California” Ad
Oct 30 Livening Up Asexual-Fungus Research
Oct 26 Word of the Day: Deroach
Oct 12 Naming In Need Of Taming