On the group blog The Toast on September 30th, a posting by Gretchen McCulloch, “A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Shipping”, about ship names, based on a paper in fan-guistics on the subject. McCulloch writes that there’s an actual academic paper written about it: The Fandom Pairing Name: Blends and the Phonology/Orthography Interface [with link to … Continue reading Fan-guistics