The Language Perfectionist: A Bad Spell
Long before the Internet, jokes, lists, fun facts, and the like were circulated on old-fashioned paper. This sort of material was wryly dubbed “photocopier folklore” by Alan Dundes, a scholar who specialized in the phenomenon and compiled his discoveries into a series of books. One such item I recall was a list of the most commonly [...]
Friday, January 21, 2011
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