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A Photo Journal of South Africa:
Place of the Year 2009

Filed in A-Featured & Geography & Leisure | November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Helen Eaton and Dewi Jackson share photos of their trip to South Africa.

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.

Southeast Asia and the Kingdom of Angkor:
The New Oxford World History Series

Filed in A-Featured & History & World History | May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments

An excerpt from Southeast Asia in World History.

Poetry Link Love

Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Current Events & Prose | April 10, 2009 | No Comments »

Purdy shares his poetry link love.

Monthly Gleanings: January 2009: Part 2

Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | February 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

Anatoly’s second installment of January gleanings.

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.”

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

Filed in A-Featured | July 31, 2008 | 5 Comments

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 [...]