Monthly Archives July 2006

New words

USA Today reports, today, that google is now an officially recognized verb in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Surprised that it had taken them this long, I looked around to see if it was already in the Oxford English Dictionary. As it happens, the OED added it on June 15, along with crunk, ho-bag, fucking A, and [...]

Day off for me but not for thee

A show of hands, please, of everyone inconvenienced by the Virginia DMV’s two-day celebration of American independence. [hand]