Language and how we use it.

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• A Few Well-Chosen Words Our collective unconscious online.  
  Cullen Murphy Dec. 9, 1998
  
• Yours, Mine, and Ours Whose God is it, anyway?
  Cullen Murphy Oct. 10, 1998
  
• Plain Speaking A Y2002 Problem.
  Cullen Murphy Sept. 10, 1998
  
• Trash Talking The many forms of empty and hypocritical speech.
  Cullen Murphy July 9, 1998
  
• Bible English Like it or not, the good book lies behind everything you say.
  Cullen Murphy June 3, 1998
  
• Alphabet Soup A technological history of reading and writing.
  Cullen Murphy May 20, 1998
  
• The Lie of the Land Equivocations, deceptions, fibs, and other forms of not telling the truth.
  Cullen Murphy April 2, 1998
  
• Like Sands Through the Hourglass At the end of the day, what does it all mean?
  Cullen Murphy Feb. 19, 1998
  
• Noted With Pleasure The glorious art of citing your sources.
  Cullen Murphy Jan. 1, 1998