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Mr. Manners’ Guide to The F-Word:
Or, “When it is Permissible to Refer to a Goat-effing Contest”

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

Mark Peters looks at the various uses of “hench” as a prefix.

Set Phasers on Tweet: A Star Trek Snowclone Blizzard on Twitter

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

Mark Peters looks at how the -y suffix has gone crazy.

Spacemen and Anonymuncles Attack!
Old Words for Writers

Mark Peters resurrects some old words to describe writers.

Cuckoo for Snowclone Puffs: An Essential Part of an Insane Vocabulary

Mark Peters explores the phrase “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

Vilipendious Pig-dog! Balatronic Dastardling! Contemptibly Obscure Words

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

Peters explores the word “Cylon”.

From here till nano-eternity: The biggest little word-maker

Mark Peters looks at the word “nano.”

Post-traumatic Snowclone Disorder:
A Formula for the Favre Retirements, Foreign Policies, and Sea Monkeys We Can’t Get Over

Mark Peters, the genius behind the blog Wordlustitude in addition to being a Contributing Editor for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, and a language columnist for Babble, and the author of Yada, Yada, Doh!: 111 TV Words That Made the Leap from the Screen to Society is our guest blogger this week. Check out his [...]

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