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Articles from 2010
Our own Mark Peters takes a look back at a decade in euphemisms, by trawling through the annual selections of "most euphemistic" words by the American Dialect Society — from courtesy calls to scooping technicians.
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When did shall go out of fashion as the first person marker for the future tense? Or was it ever in fashion? This month in the Lounge we look at the career of English's most mismanaged modal.
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Blog Excerpts
Scalia vs. "Choate"
Justice Antonin Scalia recently interrupted a lawyer during a Supreme Court oral argument to chastise him for using the word choate (the opposite of inchoate). What's Scalia's beef? Find out in the latest New York Times Magazine "On Language" column by Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer, now online here.
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