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Film Noir

This past summer, the file transfer service that I had long used to share films and recordings from my LEXinars ...

Where Has the Time Gone?

It's the last quarter of 2021. Time for 2022 calendars. This year, I am offering six different calendar designs to ...

Minding My Own Business

Update: No sooner did I publish this, then Transfer Big Files canceled my account, deleting all of my files, contacts, and ...

Free and Bound

Yesterday, some Canadian woman who is a total stranger to me tried to scold me for not making 100% of ...

Some Summer

Still, I suppose a summer by any other name would still smell as sweet. Somehow I've crammed a million best ...

Shameless Spelling is Live

Announcing Shameless Spelling.   Live, right now, and that's no joke.   ...

Shameless Spelling

For years, I've thought about doing a podcast. I met with a sound guy a couple of times, bought a ...

Orthography

I am pleased to share with you this PDF of the entry I wrote entitled "Orthography" in the International Encyclopedia of ...

Etymology!™ IX: Pandemics & Plagues

Happy New Year! Announcing Etymology!™ IX ~ Pandemics & Plagues: How Disease Has Defined English. Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, March ...

Broken Record

Recently, I began recording certain LEXinars for a client with a documented learning disability. That was an educational accommodation intended ...

Money Clip

The base element -phone- means ‘voice, vocal sound.’ The WORD 'phone' is a clip of ‘telephone’ and it means ‘telephone.’ ...

Still Miss Informed

About a year ago, I wrote a post detailing 84 etymological falsehoods that Louisa Cook Moats published in a single table in ...