Bloggery

I’m a contributor to LanguageLog.
Some of my posts:

• The Romantic Side of Familiar Words
• Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck
• Deontic illogic
• If rabble comes can rousers be far behind?
• Buckley, thou should’st be living at this hour!
• Who would not weep if E. B. White were he?
• Evidential Ain’t
• Mission Postposition
• Tis Strange the Mind, That Fiery Particle…
• Elite Individuals
• ‘Tis the Gift to be Simplistic
• And a Right Guid Willie Waught to You, Too, Pal
• Gingerly We Roll Along
• Making the World Safe for “Democracy”
• What “Under God” Really Means (followup 1,2)
• Samuel Huntington’s Mistakes
• Why Linguists Get No Respect

I’ve also posted occasionally at the New Republic’s “Open University.”