Recent writing

It’s been a minute, as they say. Here’s a sampling of what I’ve published on other platforms:

Does Anyone Still Write Letters? (Other Than Me, That Is.) (Medium gift link)

What I Like About American English (An Open Letter to Our Friends Across the Pond) (Medium gift link)

And speaking of American vs. British English, here’s Bamboozled by Bits and Bobs (Substack)

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What you need to know about some trendy words:

Demure

Brat

Weird

Tonic masculinity

Couch-fucker

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I still critique brand names in my “Naming Briefs” series. Here’s the latest, on Macho Flora, Zeteo, and Stratechery.

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Finally, I continue to contribute to the Among the New Words section of American Speech, the quarterly journal of the American Dialect Society. My latest:

Assholocene (PDF)