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Fresh Air Pieces

Some recent Fresh Air pieces

  •  ’Entitlement’—a word to conjure with  8/14/12
  • Swearing: A Long And #%@&$ History 7/24/12
  • Taboo Revival: Talking Private Parts In Public Places 6/25/12
  • ‘Hopefully’ Is Here To Stay, Hopefully 5/30/12
  • Slut: The Other Four Letter S-Word 3/13/12
  • “We’re broke” 3/24/11
  • Killer Metaphors 1/20/11
  • Word of the Year? No!  12/15/10
  • “Sensitivity” Training 9/7/10
  • Country Wordplay 9/3/10
  • Refudiatin’ Rhythm 8/3/10
  • Haiku Nation 6/14/10
  • “Under God,” Hapax Legomenon 3/28/10
  • Pet Peeves 2/22/10
  • A Decade in Words 12/16/09
  • The I’s Don’t Have It (word counts gone wrong) 11/17/09
  • Safire on Sunday 10/6/09
  • Government Issue 8/11/09
  • Our Friend the Passive Voice 5/1/09

Other Fresh Air pieces

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"Geoffrey Nunberg is known for his witty commentaries on language usage and politics.” —Profile in The NY Times Book Review



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