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News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_.
This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see:
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(Some of) today's F-Word news: @lithub just published a long excerpt from the Introduction.
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News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_.
This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see:
jessesword.com/fword.html
F-Word update, celebrating authors I know and like! Today's episode features the great @emilynussbaum, who appears twice, once as a reporter, quoting Fiona Apple using _fuck me_, and once as a critic, for _MILF_.
The book is out today! Get your copy!
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ALT *2020* F. Apple in E. Nussbaum _Skin in the Game_ in _New Yorker_ (Mar. 23) 33/1: And if that’s not true? Then fuck me, I wasted my fucking life and ruined everything. --- *2015* E. Nussbaum _On Television_ in _New Yorker_ (Mar. 9) 97/1: Mother and son are both drawn to Honey, a trophy wife who lives next door. Eddie sees a hot MILF he can show off to the boys; Jessica sees a kindred spirit.
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_.
This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see:
jessesword.com/fword.html
A great thing about historical lexicography is being able to highlight authors I like! Here are two quotes from
@hankgreen, from two new entries: interjectional _the fuck_, and interjectional _fuckballs_.
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ALT Two quotes in _The F-Word_ from Hank Green's _An Absolutely Remarkable Thing_ (with surrounding text from other quotations blurred out): *2018* H. Green _Absolutely Remarkable Thing_ 7: The fuck, April, it's 33 a.m. and *2018* H. Green _Absolutely Remarkable Thing_ (electronic ed.): "Oh holy fuckballs," my mom said. Everyone laughed.
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_.
This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see:
jessesword.com/fword.html
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We are devastated to learn of the death our colleague Dr Jenni Nuttall @Stylisticienne, Lecturer @ExeterCollegeOx & member of @engfac. Jenni had been a much-loved member of our academic community over more than two decades. We shall miss her greatly. english.web.ox.ac.uk/article…
Continuing a tradition for NYC-based conferences: I'm hosting a cocktail party at the @americandialect annual meeting, on Saturday 6 Jan at 7:00, at my home, just crosstown from the Sheraton. All ADS'ers, mutual follows, &c. are welcome. Email for address & please RT/forward.
In the unlikely event that there are any mutuals still left who need an invite code for the better place, HMU.
Alexa define "sunk cost fallacy"
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We've decided to re-label the "anime" subject to "comics"; this is now a broad category including anything about or deriving from comics in any sense (comic books, anime/manga, newspaper comics, etc.). This category needs significant expansion.
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Happy Corduroy Appreciation Day: 11/11, the date most resembling corduroy!
Adherents, you know what to do!
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One in six writers secretly _______ (despises, despise) the semicolon. – at Manhattan, NY
69%despises
23%despise
4%I could do either/depends
4%see answers
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Still working on that important group of entries, but meanwhile, here are big antedatings of _shuttle_ (1940 to 1930) and _shuttlecraft_ (1967 to 1953) (also cleaned up both entries):
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Small but nice antedating o'the day: "light-speed", specifically as a unit of measure, from John W. Campbell in 1932 to Edmond Hamilton in 1929:
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My wife and I are doing research on some of the challenges writers are facing right now in their everyday work. If you’re a writer, or if your work involves a fair amount of daily writing, would you consider taking a 2-minute survey? Thanks all! surveymonkey.com/r/KMBYKJW
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ALT Cartoon, simple black and white line drawing. On the left, a single tree. Below it the word "Fore". In the middle 4 trees, below them "Forer". On the right a bunch of trees, below them the word "Forest".
Absolutely outstanding performance from @GweniferRaymond yesterday; wish she'd played a full set, not just as an opener. Also wish she had a gig in NYC proper so I could see her again!
Perhaps of interest to some followers: @SwannGalleries is auctioning a 1st U.S. edition (second issue) of the Savoy Cocktail Book.
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