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The Angry Grammarian: Forgetting Sarah Palinnew

Perhaps the most prized spoil of the election is the richest word to enter the lexicon in a long time. Like all the best neologisms, it's descriptive, it's self-explanatory and it just makes you feel so good: "Palinfreude."
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Jeffrey Barg  |  11-17-2008  |  Commentary

The Angry Grammarian: The Rumpus Crowns a Champnew

Started last November, the Angry Grammarian Great Scrabulous Tournament Challenge Rumpus—a Facebook-based Scrabble competition--whittled 120 original competitors down to one final champ.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Jeffrey Barg  |  07-14-2008  |  Commentary

The Angry Grammarian: White People Love Grammarnew

I’m white. Always have been. So imagine my excitement when “Grammar” was recently featured on the ever-popular Stuff White People Like blog.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Jeffrey Barg  |  05-27-2008  |  Commentary

The Angry Grammarian: How the Capitalization of "Internet" Foretold the Doom of Print Journalismnew

The copyediting rules applied to Internet-related terms go a long way in showing just how unprepared newspapers were for the Internet’s arrival, and how fundamental their misunderstanding was of it. So now, thanks to complete unpreparedness on the part of newspapers, we’re left with a mess of rules rife with inconsistencies.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Jeffrey Barg  |  05-27-2008  |  Commentary

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