This is just silliness, with very little linguistic content. You’ve been warned. In the New York Times of 11 April, Gail Collins (p. A15) refers in passing to Winfield, Missouri’s “devastating 2008 flood, when a levee breach caused by a burrowing muskrat damaged about 100 homes.” (She mentions the town because it recently re-elected someone … Continue reading Muskrat ramble