Language – Dara Rochlin Book Doctor

Spoonerisms

A “spoonerism” is a slip of the tongue where the speaker inadvertently swaps the consonants or vowels in a phrase.

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

Friday Word of the Day elide verb \ i-ˈlīd \ elided; eliding transitive verb 1 a : to suppress or

March 2014 TedTalk by Anne Curzan “What makes a word ‘real’. One could argue that slang words like ‘hangry,’ ‘defriend’

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But

lemma [lem-uh] noun In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story Amy Tan:

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

A groundbreaking new study from the Gallant Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley is transforming how scientists understand language

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the

Have you ever been stuck for a word? The meaning is clear in your head, but you can’t grasp the

acroname n. A name that is the acronym of a longer name. [Deseret News] ambidisastrous adj. Equally ruinous or calamitous in two ways or