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| I've long been a lover of words, language, lexicography, and etymology, and this section of JonBoyd.org gives me a chance to stretch out and offer notes on particular words and phrases. My goal is to pass along little gems that you might find delightful. Grab a Coke, kick back in your La-Z-Boy, and turn off your cell phone. Here's an article you're going to want to xerox, man: it's the internet's best list of false generics. {Read on}
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| Readings Beyond the Yolk From "The Singing School of the Humanities," by Frederick Turner, American Arts Quarterly 24, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 17 — {Read on} Oct 16, 2007 |
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| English To Heal and Be Healed The verb to heal can be both transitive and intransitive, and I think this evokes the mystery of participating in God's restorative work. {Read on} Nov 18, 2005 |
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| Biblical · English A Doff of the Cap to Don The verbs don and doff go together. Here's how. {Read on} Nov 1, 2004 |
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| English Bee. B-E-E. Bee. We recently watched Spellbound, a documentary film about the National Spelling Bee — and it made us wonder about bee (though not, rest assured, how to spell it). {Read on} Oct 11, 2004 |
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| English · Greek · Technical Stereo Files The prefix stereo- seems to make things either three-dimensional, as in stereophonic or -scopic, or else one-dimensional, as in a stereotype. What gives? {Read on} Sep 18, 2004 |
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