Language and how we use it.

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• Tiger Woods Does Not Have 11 "Mistresses" His many paramours aren't committed enough to merit that term.
  Jesse Sheidlower Dec. 10, 2009
  
• Can a Woman "Prong" a Man? Why it's so hard to put sex in the dictionary.
  Jesse Sheidlower Oct. 1, 2009
  
• 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 March 18, 2009