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All posts tagged
words
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June 18, 2004Words That at First Glance Appear to be The Names of Warring Populations in Bad Science-Fiction Novels, but are Actually Strange Marsupials
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February 27, 2004Words That Could Conceivably Be Used to Describe Both Scalps and Scallops
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January 4, 2004Adjective and Noun Combinations Considered and Then Discarded in Favor of “Black Betty” in the Song “Black Betty,” Which Is Perhaps Better Known as “Whoa! Black Betty! Bam-ba-Lam.”
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September 3, 2002Vocabulary Words We Learned by Playing Dungeons & Dragons
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June 16, 2002Selected Words from a Chinese-English Dictionary Published in the People’s Republic of China And the Sentences Used to Illustrate Their Meanings
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April 29, 2002My Unabridged Vocabulary at Thirteen Months, Which, Unhappily, Foreshadows the Next 302
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January 2, 2002Words Used by My Grandfather in His WWII Diary to Denote Intoxication
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December 20, 2001The Many Uses Of The Word “Word.”
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December 17, 2001The Thirty Two Words
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November 5, 2001Nine Words Probably Not Ever Found in Personal Ads