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Mar/Apr 2010
You Can Quote Them
The Wall Street Journal has called him “the restless genius of American etymology.” He is an attorney in Round Rock, Texas, and his name...
May/Jun 2010
You can quote them
Information about words and quotations is of two kinds. There are reference works that use traditional research methods (or no research methods at...
Mar/Apr 2011
Bruce Wayne's verbal legacy
Until now, Yalies sensitive to their university's reputation in the cartoon world could only cringe whenever the supercentenarian Charles Montgomery...
Mar/Apr 2012
You can quote them
From boilerplate to make a federal case out of it to indict a ham sandwich, law-related language reflects law’s...
Jan/Feb 2013
You can quote them
Anyone who studies quotations and phraseology often sees a phenomenon I hereby dub “phrase inflation”: in expressions that use a number...
Mar/Apr 2013
You can quote them: The full monty
In my last column I wrote about the cryptic origins of the widespread phrase “the whole nine yards.” This is the best-known of a class...
May/Jun 2013
You can quote them: Elementary, my dear reader
Any discussion of the quotations of Sherlock Holmes must begin with the Great Misquotation. Ranking with the famous but erroneous “Beam me up...
Sep/Oct 2013
You can quote them: New Haven firsts
The list of “firsts” claimed for New Haven is astoundingly long. Wikipedia lists, to name only a few, the first cotton gin, telephone...
Mar/Apr 2014
Sayings of the south
The opera ain’t over Even in the era before Internet memes, mass media sometimes propagated memorable phrases like wildfire. During the 1978...
Jul/Aug 2014
They didn’t say it first
More famous quotations are anonymous than you think. We’re not referring here to the likes of “To be or not to be” or...
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