I’ve made a full transition from this blog to my Substack newsletter, also called Fritinancy. My Leap Day newsletter is a linkfest of branding news, rebranding news, naming news, and assorted items of interest. Read it here.
I also continue to contribute to Medium! Read my two latest stories:
Thanks for reading!
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If you’ve landed here via search engine, welcome! For the last six months most of my writing has been published on Substack. That’s where you’ll find:
All about Veblen goods (and Thorstein Veblen, for whom they’re named)
Discovering Asian brands at San Francisco’s liveliest shopping center
Critiques of three brand names: Nuvet, TRYP, and Navier
And lots more! Subscribe—it’s free!
I also continue to publish on Medium. Recent stories include:
The triumph of the swears: Why naughty words dominated the Word of the Year vote
And because squaw is back in the news because Fresno County (California) leaders are refusing to remove the word from a local place name, here’s a gift link to my 2021 story about the valley of the S-word.
You can read all of my Medium stories with an annual membership—just $50—that also gives you access to everything else published on Medium.
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Happy almost-2024! I've got some new writing on Substack:
And here’s a friend link to my recently published Medium story: “How to Enjoy Going to the Movies.”
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My fifteenth annual words of the year (WotY) post has moved! You can now find all of my WotY picks, from enshittification to sprinkle sprinkle, in my Substack newsletter. You’ll find links to all my previous WotY lists there, too.
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Read all about greedflation on my Substack newsletter! And while you’re there, check out some other recent posts: on the -pilled suffix (redpilled, blackpilled, breadpilled, glitterpilled); on Phoebe Philo (what a name!); on pastness, a new-to-me word that isn’t new at all; on Kim Kardashian’s Ultimate Nipple Bra; and on the ubiquitous, ridiculous ’tis the season, which I’m not even a little bit jolly about.
And look: Here’s my November linkfest, now called a linkstack!
Wondering why I’ve moved over there? Here’s an explanation.
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For Halloween, I wrote about ghost- compounds, from ghost bike to ghost word. Subscribe to my Substack to read the post!
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I’m talking about names today in my Substack newsletter: Kindbody, Gromeo, Uniqlo : C, and millennial baby names. Find me in your browser or on the Substack app—subscriptions are free, and you’ll receive ad-free updates in your inbox.
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It’s moved to Substack, and it’s a quadfecta this week: three words and one name, all beginning with the letter D. Read and subscribe—it’s free!
Here’s a preview of one of the words:
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You can find this week’s word, aesthetic injury*, in its new home on my Substack newsletter. Sign up for a free subscription!
* Yes, I know it’s two words, but it’s what linguists call a “lexical item,” which qualifies it as a word of the week.
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In case you aren’t following me on the splintered social-mediascape*, here are links to two recent pieces I’ve published on Medium and my bloggish new home, Substack:
LinkedIn Is Actually Fun Now (no, really!)
On Collaboration (and old folks who swim the English Channel)
You can subscribe to my Substack for free, and my posts will arrive in your inbox, RSS feed, or Substack app with zero ads. How nice is that? Very nice.
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* Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, Threads (app only for now), LinkedIn. And I still maintain a ghostly presence on Xitter, pronounced Shitter.
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