Losing/having the bubble

(I originally intended this posting to go to the American Dialect Society mailing list, but the Stanford mailer rejected it repeatedly. So I’m posting it here and will post a note to ADS-L about it. Sigh. This is a somewhat edited version of that posting.) Ann Burlingham caught this on NPR’s All Things Considered, 4/23/09. … Continue reading Losing/having the bubble