Holiday Book Bonanza ‘09:
Mark Peters
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Prose | December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mark Peters shares his favorite books.
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Holiday Book Bonanza ‘09:
Mr. Manners’ Guide to The F-Word:
Or, “When it is Permissible to Refer to a Goat-effing Contest”
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Lexicography & Reference | October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mark Peters explains when and how to properly use the f-word and its variations.
Send in the Hench-poodles! An Underrated Prefix for Underlings
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Lexicography & Reference | August 13, 2009 | 3 Comments
Mark Peters looks at the various uses of “hench” as a prefix.
Set Phasers on Tweet: A Star Trek Snowclone Blizzard on Twitter
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Current Events & Film | June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mark Peters looks at all the variations of the snowclone “set phasers to x” on Twitter.
A Mystery-y-ish-y Word Trend:
The –Y Suffix Has Gone Bananas
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Reference | May 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
Mark Peters looks at how the -y suffix has gone crazy.
Spacemen and Anonymuncles Attack!
Old Words for Writers
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Reference | March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mark Peters resurrects some old words to describe writers.
Cuckoo for Snowclone Puffs: An Essential Part of an Insane Vocabulary
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mark Peters explores the phrase “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
Vilipendious Pig-dog! Balatronic Dastardling! Contemptibly Obscure Words
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | December 4, 2008 | 8 Comments
Mark Peters looks at the 263 words in the Oxford English Dictionary with contemptible in the definition.
Frakin’ Cylontastic: Battlestar Galactica’s Other Successful Word
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | October 9, 2008 | 5 Comments
Peters explores the word “Cylon”.
From here till nano-eternity: The biggest little word-maker
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography | September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
Mark Peters looks at the word “nano.”
