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Can a Woman "Prong" a Man?
Why it's so hard to put sex in the dictionary.   		Jesse Sheidlower   Oct 01, 2009   Good Word, The  
If You Seek Amy's Ancestors
Britney Spears didn't invent the dirty pun in her new song title. She stole it from Joyce and Shakespeare.   		Jesse Sheidlower   Mar 18, 2009   Good Word, The  
Who Checks the Spell-Checkers?
Microsoft Word's dictionary is old and outdated. Here's how to fix it.   		Chris Wilson   Dec 31, 2008   Good Word, The  
Czar Wars
How did a term for Russian royalty work its way into American government?   		Ben Zimmer   Dec 29, 2008   Good Word, The  
Epic Win
Goodbye, schadenfreude; hello, fail.   		Christopher Beam   Oct 15, 2008   Good Word, The  
Diagramming Sarah
Can Palin's sentences stand up to a grammarian?   		Kitty Burns Florey   Oct 01, 2008   Good Word, The  
What Kind of Accent Does Sarah Palin Have?
Wasillan, actually.   		Jesse Sheidlower   Oct 01, 2008   Good Word, The  
Speechwriter for a Day
The best antimetabole submissions from Slate's reader contest.   		Juliet Lapidos   Sep 12, 2008   Good Word, The  
The Hottest Rhetorical Device of Campaign '08
Ask not what antimetabole can do for you—ask what you can do for antimetabole.   		Juliet Lapidos   Sep 05, 2008   Good Word, The  
A History of Pimping
What the word meant and what it means now.   		Jesse Sheidlower   Feb 11, 2008   Good Word, The  
3:10 to Yuma in Cuba
How a Western changed the way Cubans speak.   		Brett Sokol   Oct 08, 2007   Good Word, The  
So Many Exclamation Points!
A new style guide says we should pepper our e-mails with them. Really?   		Jacob Rubin   Aug 30, 2007   Good Word, The  
You Go, Companion!
What to call Paul Wolfowitz's special lady friend.   		Ben Yagoda   Apr 20, 2007   Good Word, The  
Pardon the Interjection
The Internet and the rise of awwa, meh, feh, and heh.   		Ben Yagoda   Feb 16, 2007   Good Word, The  
Keeping Up With the Smoneses
Are American newlyweds blending their last names?   		Benjamin Zimmer   Aug 16, 2006   Good Word, The  
Suck It Up
A defense of the much-maligned word.   		Seth Stevenson   Aug 02, 2006   Good Word, The  
You Need To Read This
How need to vanquished have to, must, and should.   		Ben Yagoda   Jul 17, 2006   Good Word, The  
Revenge of the Language Nerds
Beleaguered linguists find witty champions in Far From the Madding Gerund.   		Robert Lane Greene   Jul 13, 2006   Good Word, The  
Is Concept a Verb?
How to get a word into the dictionary.   		Jesse Sheidlower   May 12, 2006   Good Word, The  
Where Do "Baby-Daddies" Come From?
The origins of the phrase.   		Julia Turner   May 07, 2006   Good Word, The  
Word Count
Are there really 988,968 words in the English language?   		Jesse Sheidlower   Apr 10, 2006   Good Word, The  
The Dirty Word in 43 Down
A New York Times crossword gaffe.   		Jesse Sheidlower   Apr 06, 2006   Good Word, The  
How Does the Pentagon Say "Body Bag"?
Hint: It's not "transfer tube."   		Benjamin Zimmer   Apr 04, 2006   Good Word, The  
The Word We Love To Hate
Literally.   		Jesse Sheidlower   Nov 01, 2005   Good Word, The  
Like a Hurricane
Journalists struggle to describe Jeanne's mighty winds.   		Sam Eifling   Sep 27, 2004   Good Word, The  
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