Tag Archives: language

  1. Reduplications, Great Shifts, and Free Speech

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                Reading my old copy of “Dictionary of American Slang” (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, …
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    Category: book banning, books, English language, grammar, language, languages, libraries, slang | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  2. Baseball, Xenophobia, and Optimism

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    February 14, 2025 by libroshombre

                The Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, is largely forgotten these days, but as a magazine journalist writer, editor, and …
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    Category: American English, baseball, language, racism, reference books, word origins, words, xenophobia | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  3. Small Words, Fast Talking, and Bluestockings

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    February 5, 2025 by libroshombre

                Our public library possesses an enchanting array of rare and valuable books, but as John Lennon once said, “Possession …
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    Category: cats, collecting, collections, pubic libraries, women, word of the year, words | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  4. Dominant Languages, Oldest Libraries, and the Brain Atlas

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    May 31, 2016 by libroshombre

    “One does not inhabit a country,” the Romanian philosopher Emile Cioran once pointed out, “one inhabits a language. That is …
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    Category: brain, English language, internet, language, languages, libraries, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

  5. Careful Words, Commas, and CIA Style

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    September 11, 2014 by libroshombre

    Buddha once said, “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced …
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    Category: communication, words, writing well | Tags: , , , , , ,

  6. Demonyms, Dialects, and the Letter K

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    March 27, 2014 by libroshombre

    Hillbillies were mentioned in my last column as being synonymous with hicks, rednecks, and Hoosiers, which is “the official demonym …
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    Category: alphabet, communications, dialects, language | Tags: , , , ,

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