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In response to a query about “language peevers”, I offer a partial inventory of postings on language rage, language peeving, word aversion, and word attraction on Language Log and this blog. I stopped keeping the inventory up to date early this year; there is just so much to deal with.

Postings are from Language Log unless otherwise identified.

[GP, 2/12/04: No free speech for spam rage (link): about rage, but not rage over linguistic matters]

ML, 3/24/04: Fed up with “fed up”? (link): peeves

ML, 4/13/04: A field guide to prescriptivists (link): peeves

ML, 6/21/04: Reads, zaps and digresses (link): peeves

ML, 8/4/04: Disgust for voices and accents (link)

GP, 10/11/04: Language rage in Spain (link)

AZ, 11/17/04: Not a word! (link): peeves

GP, 4/11/05: The pointless game of Grammar Gotcha (link)

ML, 6/3/05: Step on a crack, break a grammar rule (link): peeves

ML, 8/30/05: “Grammar cranks” of the right (link): peeves

ML, 10/5/05: Stickler shock (link): peeves

ML, 10/6/05: Linguistic mens rea (link): peeves

ML, 10/7/05: Ann Coulter, grammarian (link): peeves

BZ, 10/25/05, Peeveblogging (link)

BZ, 10/28/05: The longue duree is not our forte (link): peeves

BZ, 11/1/05: Literally: a history (link): peeves

ML: 11/04/05: Word rage outside the Anglosphere? (link)

ML, 11/5/05: Shooting too good (link)

BZ, 2/15/06: Odium against “podium” (link)

BZ, 3/5/06: Pioneers of word rage (link)

ML, 11/12/06: Alarming decline in literacy among publicists and journalists (link)

ML, 12/26/06: Shakespearing the reader’s brain: a tragicomedy in three acts (link)

RS, 2/6/07: Language anger management (link)

ML, 2/7/07: Cavett kvetches (link)

ML, 2/8/07: “If only language could be ‘fixed’” (link)

AZ, 2/8/07: Droning on (link)

GN, 2/8/07: Word rage – not! (link)

AZ, 2/24/07: Tolerating variation, or not (link): peeves

ML, 2/27/07: The social psychology of linguistic naming and shaming (link): peeves

AZ, 3/2/07: Spelling rage (link)

ML, 7/5/07: Font rage (link)

BZ, 7/26/07: The ecology of peevology (link)

BZ, 8/20/07:  Peeveblogging marches on (link)

ML, 8/20/07: Ask Language Log: The moist panties phenomenon (link): word aversion

ML, 8/20/07: “Don’t say ‘tin’ to Rebecca, you  know how it upsets her” (link): word aversion

ML, 9/10/07: Morning mailbag (link): word aversion

ML, 10/6/07: The long moist tail (link): word aversion

AZ, 10/25/07: From cringe to offense (link): word aversion

ML, 2/18/08: The liturgy of lost causes (link): peeves

AZ, 2/26/08: National (omigod) Grammar Day (link): peeves

GP, 3/2/08: Lying feminst ideologues wreck English, says Yale prof (link)

ML, 3/14/08: Cognitive therapy for word rage (link)

GP, 3/21/08: Wiki rage in Sussex (link)

GP, 3/24/08: Colon rage (link)

ML, 8/27/08: Moist aversion: the cartoon version (link): word aversion

BZ, 11/24/08: The “meh” wars, part 2 (link)

AZ, 4/21/09: Prejudices, egocentrism, impositions, and intransigence (link): word avoidance, aversion, rage

ML, 5/13/09: Word attraction (link)

BZ, 5/19/09: Word aversion and attraction in the news (link): word aversion, attraction

ML, 6/17/09: Prescriptivist pain (link)

ML, 7/12/09: Word rage wins again (link): word rage

BZ, 8/8/09: The “moist” chronicles, continued (link): word aversion

ML, 8/25/09: Museum musing (link): John McIntyre on peevologists

AZ, 9/12/09: Whatever (link): peeves: whatever

ML, 9/26/09: Moving low-hanging fruit forward at the end of the day (link): peeves: ATEOTD

ML. 9/26/09: Memetic dynamics of summative cliches (link): peeves: ATEOTD

ML, 9/26/09: “At the end of the day” not management-speak (link): peeves: ATEOTD

BZ, 10/9/09: “Annoying word” poll results: Whatever! (link): peeves

ML, 10/30/09: Four centuries of peeving (link): cartoon: facebook used as a verb

AZBlog, 10/30/09: Dislike of blog (link)

ML, 11/24/09: Phrase rage (link)

AZBlog, 2/20/10: Zippylicious geographical names (link): word attraction/appreciation

Geoff Nunberg on NPR, 2/23/10 (link): peeves

GN, 2/26/10: The romantic side of familiar words (link): word attraction (“beautiful” words)

ML, 4/29/10: Twetiquette (link): peeves (and associated social attitudes), re Twitter

AZBlog, 5/3/10: Savoring words (link): word attraction/appreciation

ML, 7/23/10: Six words (link): word aversion

ML, 2/23/11: “Toot chuckle lil’ kidnap Snooki” (link): word aversion

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