An assortment of short notes that have come my way recently, on errors, back-formations, penguins, gender roles, and more. 1. Spelling woes. Writing about ukuleles (here) was quite a trial for me. The word ukulele kept coming out ukelele — partly, I suppose, from the influence of the clipped variant uke, partly by anticipation of … Continue reading Odds and ends 8/14/13