Language and how we use it.

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• Keeping Up With the Smoneses Are American newlyweds blending their last names?
  Benjamin Zimmer Aug. 16, 2006
  
• Suck It Up A defense of the much-maligned word.
  Seth Stevenson Aug. 2, 2006
  
• You Need To Read This How need to vanquished have to, must, and should.
  Ben Yagoda July 17, 2006
  
• Revenge of the Language Nerds Beleaguered linguists find witty champions in Far From the Madding Gerund.
  Robert Lane Greene July 13, 2006
  
• Is Concept a Verb? How to get a word into the dictionary.
  Jesse Sheidlower May 12, 2006
  
• Where Do "Baby-Daddies" Come From? The origins of the phrase.
  Julia Turner May 7, 2006
  
• Word Count Are there really 988,968 words in the English language?
  Jesse Sheidlower April 10, 2006
  
• The Dirty Word in 43 Down A New York Times crossword gaffe.
  Jesse Sheidlower April 6, 2006
  
• How Does the Pentagon Say "Body Bag"? Hint: It's not "transfer tube."
  Benjamin Zimmer April 4, 2006