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You can tell everybody this is your song1 comment

mighty red pen wrote 23 hours ago: If this single by the Rock Bottom Remainders (you know them, the band that includes Dave Barry, Step … more →

Tags: pop culture, Proofreading, Rock Bottom Remainders

Robin Jeff and Little Ben running through the forest10 comments

mighty red pen wrote 1 week ago: Wow, well, doesn’t this get interesting? You may remember Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson of the … more →

Tags: Grammar goddess, Perilous Punctuation, Benjamin Herson, Jeff Deck, Lynne Truss, National Parks, Typo Eradication Advancement League

So much to say

mighty red pen wrote 1 week ago: Hat tip to Candorville and also Joy. … more →

Tags: Overseen, pop culture, Candorville, Comics

Making up is hard to do5 comments

mighty red pen wrote 2 weeks ago: MRP here just catching up on some post-vacation reading, including a guest column by the aforementio … more →

Tags: Word wars, Erin McKean, made up words

As God is my proofreader . . .2 comments

mighty red pen wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ll never be redundant again! This little tidbit in need of some divine intervention was ove … more →

Tags: Overseen, God, Provincetown, Signs, trolley

It's awesome!1 comment

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: If you’re anything like MRP, you like to liberally sprinkle your speech with the word awesome. … more →

Tags: pop culture, Slightly off-topic, Red Sox, Awesome, Andrea Higbie, George W. Bush, salon.com

Tattoo you4 comments

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Hat tip to our friends at Ducks and Drakes for this cool little blog: Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos … more →

Tags: Overseen, contrariwise, Literary Quotations, Tattoos

Hullabalula1 comment

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: You’ve heard about Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, right? This is the 9-year-old girl who wa … more →

Tags: pop culture, Baby Names, New Zealand, Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii

Origin of the species8 comments

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Okay, so you’re a smart word nerd and you probably know a lot of big SAT words. But do you kn … more →

Tags: Word wars, etymology, WorDs

Free your Lady Mondegreen8 comments

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Well, thank goodness. We can finally use the words infinity pool, edamame, and dirty bomb, and rest … more →

Tags: pop culture, Word wars, dictionary, WorDs, mondegreen

The end of grammar as we know it4 comments

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Oh, here’s an article I read the other day I keep meaning to share: “Is Language Dead or … more →

Tags: Word wars, apocalypse, Texting, Derek Denis

Shoot 'em up

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Just saw “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” a Hollywood-detective-thriller-comedy romp starring Robe … more →

Tags: pop culture, Grammar goddess, Grammar, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang., Robert Downey Jr

Saving typeface

mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Yes, “Helvetica” is a movie about a typeface, but for word nerds, the dorkumentary, er, … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, helvetica, typefaces, Graphic Design, Michael Bierut

Just one of the guys7 comments

mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Here’s a little something MRP came across the other day in Jan Freeman’s excellent colum … more →

Tags: Word wars, Jan Freeman, plurals

Office-speak for yourself14 comments

mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Hat tip to David for this little tidbit, “50 Office-Speak Phrases You Love to Hate.” Thi … more →

Tags: pop culture, Office Speak, things we hate

One thing we can say1 comment

mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Hat tip to SteamedPenguin wrote to say, “RIP: George Carlin.” Carlin, who was just about … more →

Tags: pop culture, WorDs, george carlin, brain droppings

Your brain on drugs

mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Hat tip: Toothpaste for Dinner. … more →

Tags: Lit Review, Books, toothpaste for dinner, Library

Wheee!

mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: In honor of the first day of summer, here’s a pair of sites that any word nerd could have some … more →

Tags: Confusing words, Fun With Words., WordPlay, WorDs

Just visualize it3 comments

mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Possibly the coolest thing I have seen all week: Visuwords. Calls itself an “online graphical … more →

Tags: Graphs, visuwords, dictionary, Thesaurus, Cool Things


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