New blog
Season’s greetings for 2008
Bizarro goes formal
Brilliant words and yucky words
It is impossible not to ignore
The year in cutnpaste errors
Portmansnow words
Barama
Jack/Mr. Spicer
What’s the past tense of the verb text?
Santa Clause is coming to town
A Cake Wrecks eggcorn
Manecdotes and brobituaries
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2008/12/28/nuclear-obama-lama-ding-dong/
for/because
Bowl games
International first name, avoiding of
Comments spam
The Great Books
“X”, Y said, and VP
Chinese not a language
Comma, please!
Parsimony
Two thousand eight
Very surprised by a proscription
Zombie rules I: blame, love, graduate
Zombie rules II: convince
Zombies and bogeymen
Not awarding the Purple Heart
Buraku Obama
They were mayor
Dialect dangerous to cats
More on txtng
Wide asleep
The facial narrative
Drats!
An effing great photo
Annals of taboo avoidance
On the Beverly Cleary trail
Oops!
A little more on quotative inversion
retired widow
Attititudes and attributions
Comments as a social medium
An eye-catching headline
Extraordinary playful allusion
Time stamps
Swearing like a parrot
What was she singing?
Vegetarian?
The Curious Case of B. B.
A little more on “Benjamin Britten”
Convenience and courtesy
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/02/25/more-zippy-catchphrases/
Group therapy talk
A spritual accessory
Over the top?
The humanities has
Evil FEEN
Singular humanities (round 2)
NGD
Scope, anyone?
What’s the diagnosis?
Tasty lolcat
Would have been
The first female congresswoman
Operative
Thanks
Zippy nada
Spelling woes
8 + 5 + 5
X-men
Malaprop from Calgary
Linking i
Excape!
Talking cats
Act of show
spendthrift ‘penurious person’
Bonus
Experts
Snowclonelet composites
John Hope Franklin
Class sniping at the NYT
Black historian
A celebration of American English
Foamers and stories
More variation than expected
he or she are
Hooked on phonics
Ask AZ: many in affirmative statements
The whole X
fold like a cheap X
Muskrat ramble
False Occamism
to cath
Metaphors on wheels
The first word
Little Ulul
Biggering and ensmalling
NPR names
Handbook of WHAT?
Yet?
Gramma’s rules
Teabagging and politics
Sallys
Anti-verbing
All our fish is farmed sustainably
Extreme Strunk and White
have always been men
Singular they comes to Iowa
Un-Zippy
WSJ on tea-bagging
Two tortured things from the NYT Week in Review
Orphaned at 55
Losing/having the bubble
There’s an apostrophe in there somewhere
The imparseable dream
Flaming, snarking, ranting, and brooding
Dialect aside
Extreme word rage
Peoplefy
Ordinary, technical
Non-clarifications of usage proscriptions
Distinguished alum
Making sentences interesting
Another imparseable dream
Tangerine dreams
The perils of ONW
A momentary compound problem
Showed up
Another headline posting
Swine!
Peek-a-boo
Toons and tunes
Donuts & Chinese Food
Male or female, at the bar
Tykes ease drop fears
Hybrid initial-letter abbreviations
Coerced acronyms
Stick to those good old irregular plurals
Pardon my mock French
Dubious passive
Taboo avoidance (twice removed)
Saddlebacking
For Memorial Day: the cookout
Clarification
Muhly on diacritics and blog comments
X can’t mean Y
Mrs. Malaprop lives!
Non-dual citizens, indigenous nudity, and contagious countries
Up by X to Y
A man has to say it
Parenting
Wheelbarrows
Child-rear
Today’s two-part back-formed verb inventory
Back-formings
External, internal, and double inflection
Please stop
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/12/outdated-zippy/
Be-less passives and be-ful non-passives
Postings on 2-p b-f verbs
Postings on split infinitives
Quibbling
peeve vocabulary
An insurmountable obstacle in the way of a speeding train
Resumptive that 1
Grammarville
McIntyre, simmering
No nouning!
An invite
BlackBerrys and BlackBerrying
Who is this Na person?
Sotomayoral NomConjObj
Omit Needless postings
Faith vs. WF
One Right Way
Regional countries
Use your words!
Pitchmen
Periods and type size
The dingus
To church marry, to civil marry
Emphatic nor
The spoken emoticon
Stranded P postings
Homophone problems
The telephone game
More internal inflection
to name-check
vivacious
Postings on internal/external inflection
So fun
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/07/16/835/ postings about or
Include All Necessary postings
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bemildred
X number
The patio footnote
Carrot, stick
Summer intern
Jokes and snowclones
signature dish
A word for it
Subtle and not-so-subtle allusions
Inventory of snowclone postings
What are the haps
Bad bingo words
Marriage equality
Automatic cleanup
pertain toward
Bird rage
Love and marriage in the dictionaries
Grammarian stereotype
The eye chart
Too many tweets
Playful allusion
Painting food
Zippy Schwippy … uh, Schmippy
Diplomatic trip lingo
Introducing short shots
Puns for the weekend
Tintin times
Short shot #6: adverbial scary
A grow
Short shot #7: ask and want
Short shot #8: more on grow
Ask AZBlog: googled maps NP
Portmanteaus
Meme hybrid alert
who or when
Apparatus
Nuanced
And the winners are …
Mock eggcorns and their kin
Inventory of postings on abbreviation
May I truncate?
cross-pollinize
What the iPhone can’t do
In the NYT
Short shot #9: a tough get
Short shot #10: one of the oldest countries
Acronyms
You will be had it!
Spectacular spelling fail
Solemner and its kin
Mind the filter!
grow a custom (to)
Assorted truncations
not … but instead
Short shot #11: haul-fail
Short shot #12: spotted dick
To the next level
More on but instead
Looking like a Communist
Getting it
The ants are my friends
various of
More nounings
Labels
Blame it on a word
Feel-copping
Yet,
Perverse consequences
Eve-teasing
Someday, a Bill Will Pass
Engines that could(n’t)
to glimpse (at)
More initialism complexities
Short shot #13: a lack of give a damn
Lifting shirts
Bags
Parallel universes
Choosing words
bawdlerize
Wielding taboo
Swish Exhibitionism
More sexual back-formations
Donaldism
A bag of error
premise(s)
Short shot #14: wet toes
Phrase repetition disorder
Sexual lexicography
Plant gases
Short shot #15: bodily hygiene
jute box
contempt/content
But,
The Safire watch
Teaching what?
Dangling postings
Non-parallel gaps
Eggcornish note: fragrant abuse
The implicated event of pizza-eating
Just In: NYT Violates PAP!
Short shot #16: Euro-words
Food and drink as events
Zits morphology
“we believe who”
Pleonastic indefinite article
publicate
Ellipsis on an island
Retrieval error?
Composite puzzles
WOO: The War On Of
Asteperious
Nose art
Walter Gretzkying Carnegie Hall
Inventorying stuff: Include All Necessary
Zippy humor
Neg-quant scope
cuddliness
Lagers and loggers
Slifted allegations
housemade
Dislike of blog
The nanosecond of uncertainty
Avoiding the gubernatorial taboo word
Finding error everywhere
a rat’s ass
Short shot #17: Fanshawe the mononome
Clean your plate
The effects of speech rate
When texting kills
Cheese or font?
Short shot #18: the dialect coach
Mortal texting: framing, hypallage
Cheese or font? The sequel
dampen down
Pants-lower
Undistracted driving
Return of the foamers
Short shot #19: word/thing metonymy
Short shot #20: California + ify
dinks
The hiney virus
Chuckles Bites the Dust
Inventory of who/whom postings
Playing with anaphora
NYT Week in Review omnibus
Short shot #21: portmanteau crop
Short shot #22: Fitzgerald and Strunk
Cultural references
Ask AZBlog: metanalysis
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/11/20/center-embedded-discourse/
sauced
Gender troubles 1: Latin@s
Gender troubles 2: emeriti faculty
The glut of names
Demotic speech
Short shot #23: community standards
Hybrid underwear
The Komodo Dragon
On the noun watch
Short shot #24: douchefag
Nonce truncation
Government of verb form by the nearest
Weekend comics 1: into the future
Weekend comics 2: Googie
Ellipsis woes
Annals of overnegation
each other
Short shot #25: setting a record
Nominal ellipsis
druthers
spork
Short shot #26: the tyranny of the style sheet
Grammar, syntax, and style
Singular, plural, collective
Grammar vs. syntax
Short shot #27: to queen-wave
deprecate
Annals of salty terms
Initialistic avoidance
Short shot #28: your next quit
Short shot #29: a big give
Aero-tactile integration in speech perception
Short shot #30: up and Adam
Experience and evidence
Porn hypallage?
Holiday Economist 1: politeness
Trash talking
Holiday Economist 2: difficult languages
Monosyllabic poisoning
Annoying holiday song
Annals of booklifting
Address terms
meet, the noun
booklift
Short shot #31: dogfood
Yip’s ish
V the N
gifting
Short shot #32: walking on water
Survey woes
Fronting
Inventory of portmanteau postings
Portmanteau inventory: addendum
Short shot #33: the tell-tale but
Lolcats in the snow
Observing, note-taking, analyzing
The Oxford comma in lyrics
Sunday puns
preneurs
Hasta la vista, -ista!
Missing the verb
Taboo avoidance for the blind
Conversion by truncation
Bald assertion
decimal
Year names (cont.)
800 words
hurricane money
Illness and disability
Worst Passwords
Short shot #34: one step further
Annals of vigilance
Misspellings
From the February Harper’s
-ground-
More on experience and evidence
twitter tweet
Pederasts and pedophiles
Einstein said it?
X magnet
drag
informate
Libfixes
One more -tard
What’s P YOUR N?
EDM/ODM and grade marking
Permitted loads
iPad problems
Louche Change
lifelong native
A “no permitted” sign
A sarcastic cartoon for weekend fun
X Nazi
Talkin’ the talk
Child meets idiom
chillax(ious)
Short shot #35: paratactic conditionals
Double comparatives
How to Speak Nanny
The meta-euphemism
Postings on nounings
Postings on playful word formation
Going to something and ruin
Short shot #36: exact terminology
Portmansnow round 2
Boiling a frog past the tipping point
Love of books in Dingburg
Acronym fun
Parse this!
Zippy’s lust for the literary life
Alfred Ayres
Annals of spam
Short shot #37: titles full of pronouns and ennui
-orama-orama
Brevity plus
Lame rap
Short shot #38: portmantoad
Chatty Cathies
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/02/20/zippylicious-geographical-names/
Two errors
Annals of nouning (the ADS-L volume)
Shortshot #39: a memorable title
NomConjObjs
Again and again, all over the time
-ottles
Short shot #40: the Snurfer
Geer?
Gimme shelter
Mantra of the moment
Zwicky and the Cat Museum
Fun X 3
I beg (of) you
More on the -ottles
I saw th’ best minds of my generation
Nonce truncations
Totally non-committal
Welcome to Dingburg
Yet another portmanteau
MS and Apple in Eden
A fashion for portmanteaus
The NYT goes at it slantwise
Dative delights
LINGUIST List (2010)!
It all depends on your definition of …
More negotiating on meaning in context
Dilating eye teeth
Coming soon to a small screen near you
A treat from Dr. Zwicky
The Saturday cartoon crop
to school-home
Give your baby soda pop
Short shot #41: Our imperious authors
Easter storm
Texting is th’ Anti-Christ!
Short shot #42: Championship season
Semantic change on the menu
Zippy’s Gagacabulary
The embattled pen
More on marinara sauce
Another playful portmanteau
Dingburgers are connected
Postcard collages
Old vs. new technologies
Palinian evolution
The Information Retrieval bumper sticker
Do languages get (all) the words they need?
Pinhead speechlessness
PuncSpeak
Ah-ooga
Warning signs
German physicist Eugene Wigner?
Up from speechlessness
Words for ‘chew toy’
Dudetalk in the Arctic
What IS that garment?
Interpreting compounds
You’re not listening to me!
DEFINE “SCRIMMAGE T-SHIRT”
Short shot #43: Manhattan sensibility
wife-beaters
Does this contain any X?
Savoring words
What, me worry?
ambulanza
-pocalypse
Short shots #44: Money talks
Color coding
Short shots #45: maple-apple scrapple
69
Analogies I: Zippy and Lewis Carroll
Zippy noises
Diets
More diets
Short shot #46: rubrics
Short shot #46a: graduatize
A split antecedent, wrapped around its anaphor
sandwich
Annals of hypallage
X diet
Phrasal overlap portmanteaus
Short shot #47: underwear models
X-words
No No No
Famous first words
we need to V
Annals of taboo avoidance: the white rectangle of modesty
Short shot #48: this week’s most arresting simile
Waltzing with Bears
The Two Z’s and innovation
The attributes of god, repeated three times
Disney creepitude
Progress of a Soul
Sundance is an angel when he flies
Three for the weekend
Spoken emoticons
Morphological overlap portmanteaus
Deathly idioms
Formulaic language off-kilter
The Commencement pun crop
creepitude
Ya gotta follow the script
Giving offense
Late spring 2003
Telescoped POPs?
Watching tv
Academic collages
Puns in polyresin
From the Simon Drew pun files
Bizarro puns
Rivers of Babylon
Watch where you put that accent
Cartoons for the weekend
Gay disco
Memory and fictobiography
That’s so gay
Telescoped POPs with a twist
POP games
Words and music
Footnote on marriage equality
Two things to play with
Golden State Rufskin tit
Mini-poem
Der Werwolf
Honk if you need an expletive
We need to talk
The figs of fear
Zwicky stuff
Fippy the Finhead
Revolutionary music
Images of masculinity
Vergissmeinnicht
Dick Dative and the Experiencers
Seventy
Varying formulas
Short shot #49: noun that adjective!
unsatisfactoriness and unsatisfaction
More from Dick Dative
Domestic class rebellion: a good haircut ruint
On the zeugma watch
Libfix pun, or something
I’m all about the wordplay
Fair and balanced
Short shot #50: nudge nudge, wink wink
“Waiting for my rocket to come”
Dolls and action figures
On the run in 1972-74
Ken ‘n’ Joe: an item?
Country obscenicons
The Zits-bath
The AZ@OSU posse
The pig’s daughter
Safe for public consumption
Censoring web images
The Truly Huge
A useful acronym
“Oh, X the flowers of spring!”
Short shot #51: op-ed frog-boiling
Verbatim recall
Lyrics with variable slots
Zippy goes zip-lining
The music of ruin
How you do go on!
Bear music
A few words from Sir Ian
want to?
Like/unlike
Notes: categories 7/26/10
Notes: euphemisms 7/26/10
Collage essays: from concealment to display
Five from 2005: XXX-rated collages
Splitting up: the enjambment connection
The Gasoline Prize
Splitting up: collaborative word-splitting
we need to talk, take 2
Night’s voices
Data points: verbing 7/31/10
Data points: N ellipsis, ambiguity 7/31/10
Data points: taboo avoidance, abbreviation
Data points: verbing 8/1/10
Zippylicious names
The obscenicons vs. the grawlixes
impertinent
Apology in order?
Data points: distant compounds 8/2/10
Who is this message intended for?
Guytalk
Who or which?
Arnold Zwicky’s Blog X
Data points: distant compounds 8/3/10
Data points: portmanteaus 8/3/10
Grownup performances for children
Snarled-up ESOC on the op-ed page
Marriage equality
And the winner…
Zippy physics
Zippy taken over by Valley Girl
Gay flags
DWM
Names and occupations
Have you thought about trying… linguistics?
Portmanteau Prunus
Data points: portmanteaus 8/8/10
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/09/data-points-nouning-plurals-8910/
Data points: compound semantics 8/9/10
Draper Barbie
Sarcasm
Entheta
The pun watch
The ambiguity watch: N of N
On Blog X
The House of X formula
Today’s pun crop
On AZBlogX
Data points: subj-verb agreement 8/17/10
Short shot #52: ten-stone cowboy
Data points: verbing 8/18/10
The Library Train to Sauk Centre
Data points: referent finding 8/20/10
Exuberant morphology
Return to rainbow flagwear
Sidetracking the golden goose
for Mod values of Adj
Dating by cliché
Failure to fact-check
Data points: sentential portmanteaus 8/23/10
Writing like a fag
Short shot #53: /b/ing there
Stowbody Gillingwater
More Zippy names (and things)
nth birthday, (n+1)th year; visiting professor
Pansies
Fair mammoth ears
limericist
Garden postings
Data notes: transposition 8/30/10
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/30/3494/ On the pun patrol
Search for Cee
Dingburgers having fun
The 4:33 project
NICE ‘n’ RICE
GenX so in the funnies
Pink Freud
Data points: verbing, back-formation 9/12/10
Data points: inadvertent blends 9/12/10
Classic cartoons; and two contests
Aroo, Abie, and Nibsy
Guns and fountain pens
Some deaths
Update: an endnote on shirt-lifting
Update: the law of attraction
Kol Nidre
Memorial singing
Shapenote singing: some basics
Notes on shapenote singing
Commencement photo
On AZBlogX: the gay baths
More Pink Freud
One letter away
Two obscenicon cartoons
More on writing and memory
Shapenote videos
The cowbell industry
Underwear gods
Writing and typing
Astonishing verbings
How to say this?
Data points: reduced coordination 10/23/10
Determiner-head selection
The counterpart of phallic symbol
Objects of desire
Somewhere over my poncho
Fear the beard
Wieners
Lady chow mein
On the insult patrol
mined
widowered
o m g
“autistic toddler” offensive?
On AZBlogX
Lives of the pornstars
Enjoy the Go
Short shot #54: red-hot cool
Looking it up
Zippy’s placenames
Nicks
Flash Gordon over the years
Make X Not War
blindie
Data points: address terms 11/17/10
Zeugmoids
Data points: playful libfixes 11/18/10
Taste Y
Data points: distant compounds 11/19/10
Data points: zeugma 11/19/10
Means of communication
Quotation and chastisement
Data points: malapropisms 11/19/10
Data points: euphemisms 11/20/10
Bullying and rage
A comma, doctor!
Encounters and pranks
In September and October
Concealing and revealing
Vernacular writing
Flagrant failure of parallelism
Every girl every boy
how / that
imposter vs. impostor
Another Blunt Card
Data points: gapless relatives 11/25/10
Alphabets
Data points: back-formation 11/28/10
VPE mismatches
The slow upward creep of comment spam
More on nicks
Good Fucking Design Advice
Magic Flute libretto
Data points: Faith vs. WF 12/1/10
This week’s best spam comment
+of EDM in the comics
Data points: WH-that 12/4/10
Data points: plurals in compounds 12/5/10
Dialect in the comics
But is it art?
Captioning: more is it art?
The buildup
Possibly unfortunate names
Don and doff
More notable business names
Underwear gifting
The Bun Boy Motel
A contest
The idea of reality
More captioning as art
More trendy underwear
The slur dick
A note on Mineshaft and Toolbox
Slave status, racial status, and slurs
Beating masculinity into the boy
Mash-up
Today’s homoerotic pop art
Translated from Mumblespeak
The racy Xmas card
Porn hypallage and sex-part conversion
Jesus, the Light of the World
Blessed Assurance
The Xmas package
AH Men
Short shot #55: scallibut
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/12/16/4031/ Tripping off the tongue
Contest winner
Data points: non-parallelism 12/16/10
The Xmas package 2
Proof in the pudding
Debris tide
Dr. Miles’ Nervine
The Xmas package 3
On AZBlogX: b/t coding
Spem in alium
The Xmas package 4
X whore
Expressive matter/material
Mondegreens
Amateur etymology
On the culture beat
The Xmas package 5
The Gettysburg tweet
Data points: Faith vs. WF 12/23/10
Zippy Christmas
Christmas stories and music
The men’s underwear book
Advances in verbing
Happy/Merry Christmas
The Xmas leaf
Ari in gold
More ridiculous underwear with zipper pulls
More periodophilia in the NYT
I write PRINCIPLE you write PRINCIPAL
Cee Lo’s memorable song of 2010
Punnies #11
Con-texting
Decline of traditional e-mail
DADT
Some deaths of 2010
Arf
A trial in Dingburg
Modification woes
Remarkable underwear
Data points: zeugma 12/29/10
Referent finding: own
Speech balloons
Crossbreed
Word associations as synonymy
Genital junk
pinhead
2010 in review
More junk-touching
More synonymy
Cosmetic disease
Metaphorical circle jerks
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/01/03/4182/ Internet writing rant
David Rakoff on commercial portmanteaus
Morning wood on AZBlogX
Short shot #56: a ridicumanteau
Falsely masculine names
Fired for something
Pseudonyms
Pseudonyms 2: Samuel Steward
A famous pinhead
Pancake Circus
Quotes and footnotes
Zippy and Schlitzie
Hucking at huckfests
twiblings
Horses
More hucking
Editor vs. writer
(non)federal victims
cry face
What’s the word for this?
Today’s headline
The Big Seven
Autograph spam
Child spelling
A note on gay for pay
-fests
Data points: libfixes 1/17/11
Two political cartoons
Jeezum Crow
Short shot #57: near
Comparative swearology
Gay porn as a gold standard
Machine of Death
More on swearology
Detechnicalization and retechnicalization
Mr. Sears and Roebuck
J. C. Leyendecker
Data points: RNR 1/22/11
Paper magazines
Annals of compounding: Cock crib
National caricatures
Arms races
The alphabet soup of sexuality and gender
carchitecture
VPE: antecedent-finding
acrossed
a dime a dozen
Fun with cot/caught
supernatural
Annals of nouning
Drawing sharp lines
Poetry slam
C/M
Pop music
It Gets Better / Wonderful dad
Fast food portmanteaus
Sloppy identity
Labels: homosexual
Resumptive pronoun, or something
No word for X
Nonverbal communication
More underwear links
A portmanteau crop
Annals of smileys
Saturday afternoon sickroom movies
Basket case
Combos
Remarks on anacoluthon
Old photographs
Winter quarter 1992
If only
Annals of taboo avoidance
Annals of mishearing
More annals of nouning
Fortune cookies go electronic
A Swedish basket case
Scientific metaphors
Prounced balls
The far reaches of analogy
Cultural contamination
SemFest 12!
Reptile dysfunction
And still they come
Moments of joy
Rhymes
U and I
A little more on optative if … only
TIA or whatever
Power postcard
Short shot #58: sunseed
Chinese lazy susan
Chinese Abbott and Costello
Dingburg portmanteau
Delta smelt
Shaving Cream
Jeezamarooni
Gayborhood
The stigma of ungrammaticality
Truncation alert
Conceptual art
Actual vs. virtual
More on C/M
Texting Santa
Marginalia and scholarly libraries
Multiple-level coordination
Scapegoats
misnomer ‘misconception’
Eclect(r)ic Oil
I was doored
-tards
Origin myths
literally
scoot(er)ing
Rough winds
voluntourism
Education in pop culture
Dubious diagnostics
Data points: nouning 2/27/11
On the culture beat
Annals of slurs
A little more periodophilia
Aah
Seltzer aperient
Based on this purchase…
Object whom
Dangling advice
Apostrophe abuse
X fag
NGD
Two danglers
Another day to remember
Data points: portmanteaus 3/5/11
Inflection rage
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/03/06/obscenity-and-literary-merit/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/03/07/two-dingburg-memes/
Eggcorn cartoon
Punk-ass fag in the news
Rough Boy
Losing the author’s “voice”
Data points: portmanteaus 3/8/11
Fasnacht Day
Scornful X-isms, X-manteaus, and X derivatives
Associations and connotations
Homophones
whatever else N
NPR names
Arthrousness
Anarthrous U.S.
as far as us is concerned
Days
SemFest log
Sundance stories
Musical f-bombs
Underwear puns
spunk
ruby/red slippers/pumps
Owsley Stanley
Swiss Army Gender
The coming triumph of popular culture
Why didn’t you TELL me?
Data points: optional reflexives 3/17/11
WTF
Thingy words
A thousand plus
corned beef
Data points: non-parallelism 3/19/11
Eggcorn, or something
Zwicky-cat in NYC
Brads
Dean Phoenix on gay-for-pay
Solidification
Jell-O is the gay dessert
Porn titles
Writing errors
Cartoon etymology
The penguin crop
Getting a phone sex zeugmoid
Moral senses
Annals of danglerology
hooking up
Grammar and the Postal Service
The persistence of proper names
Today’s Bizarro pun
More gaiety from the 1940s
as well
Naming your porn company
Grammar ain’t fun
Gay Mother Goose
Darn!
The lure of electronica
The doctor will see you
Underwear linguistics: shapewear
An engineer, not a linguist
Singing and cake
Complaining
Piling on
Magic realism
Unable to help
Low vowels
Greetings
What animals hear
Annals of advertising
A hundred words or less
Male vanity
George Tooker
partners
First there were celebutantes …
Thomas Eisner
Rutt’s and Mutt’s
The vocabulary of toy ads
The Torment of Saint Anthony
naked X
Verbing, mistake, or what?
An old joke
The Emperor’s “courtly language”
More Sundance
Journalists’ requests
Go pho it
What means means
Attriting
More Sundance fiction
Undoing morphophonology
Manning Marable
Underwear models and superheroes
most commented
Creating a buzz
Data points: portmanteaus 4/8/11
No more cookery
Paper preservation
OMG
Unfortunate P-drop
Today’s penguin silliness
More phallicity
Vernacular ethnonyms
Wood only
Sunday Punnies
Odds and ends
Myrontology
Our pesky artists
Got X?
Extra -S
Were the World Mine
Rebranding
Spelling your neologisms
Libfix fun: -cation
Back to the ’50s
Wonderful spam
Bulges
Very dear to me
Trochee-trochee, Grelling-Nelson
Two libfixes sharing a spelling
Truth, memory, and stories
Basket : moose knuckle :: butt : ?
Nucular postings
A nutty non-rule
C > M conversion in the popular media
Prices continue to rise
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/04/21/james-vickrey/ Robert Vickrey
Leering sushi
Metrical note
Hoisting a few brewskis
Porn name up for grabs
Mining back-formations
drizzled
Check your iPho
The sexual connection
marriage equality
The siren song of whom
On the taboo avoidance patrol
A Passover toast (with Coke)
James Jean
Data points: anaphora 4/25/11
Weighty words
Argument structure in porn
timesuck the verb?
Cram it in the boot!
Phoebe Snow
Euphemisms?
Rainbow bull
Untabooing, maintaining the taboo
-sauruses
Racy photos on my X blog
Our apostrophized holidays
Kisses
On the F-bomb watch
pedantry
Power bottoms
Ed Ruscha
Comic reporting
Data points: P~Ø 5/5/11
idiocracy
Jockstraps
A conjugational visit
Maypole and big guns
More conceptual art
Caravaggio
Romance languages
1974
Remembering Ann
Another PST/PSP = BSE
Lari Pittman
Four deaths
On the fortune cookie watch
Annals of parallelism
Monty Glover’s fortune cookies
Caravaggio meets Seiwert
Defective, damaged etc.
Bel Kaufman
Riffing and ripping on poetry
Sexy stuff on my X blog
Zippy goes over to pixels
Blogs and resources
PST/PSP syncretism
On the slur patrol
Underwear annals
Death notices
Joy of randomness
Barbara C. Scholz
?Portmanteau
Portmanteaus: carpoon
Portmanteaus: Faceborg
Saint Sebastian
Centurians and centaurians
On the idiom watch
More mommies!
On the innovation watch
Words for laziness
Argument structure of allow
Portmanteau to libfix
Another Flandrin pose
Non-predicating adjectives
The marmaxi
Chow-chow
Scent and masculinity
Ralph and Monty
Double dactylic sniff
The Phantom Tollbooth
Loinfruit
Exclamatory -S?
Patti Smith Flandrin
Portmanteau spawns libfix
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/27/50th-anniversary-report-to-
princeton/
The Boring Store
Zippy Zombie
Dishes
Sluts
Making assumptions
Riddle me, fiddle me
Triceratopiary
Hunk dream
A Princeton education
deshagged
Today’s signal mishearing
Subject finding
Obsolete syntax
The lexicographer’s obsession
Alternatives to fuck
The t-shirt watch
Hot dog modesty in the Times
The reflexologist defense
Portmanteaus: forkchops
Football grammar
Mark Grotjahn
Louis XIII cognac
The Wrestler
Portmanteaus: gaybysitting
A Commonplace of Poetry
The name game
Alligator Goodbyes
Epitomics
A Step Back For Learning Languages
Diplomatic language
The Social Network
Correlatives
Package deal
Correlative coordinators in parallel
30 years of AIDS
Frindle
Parasites and the body politic
Today’s enjoyable word
Forensics
Today’s political portmanteau
Bodies politic
The portmanteauist
Linguistic toxicity
Apologies
garmentos
Inventory of libfix postings
Product names
Portmanteaus: The Sharp tv ads
Mathematician portmanteaus
Sunday punnies
Package vocabulary
Space aliens
Cave painting
Participant roles of subjects
Sweet daddies
Information overload
Arts and crafts in the mail
Raping and punking
Doing a solid
Data points: sloppy identity 6/19/11
Anatomical portmanteaus
More libfix inventory
A pain in the grammatical butt
Dinosaur awesomeness
It doesn’t always stay in Vegas
Top searches
agapanthus
More plants of love
Accented buttocks
Slangevity
The Dingburg book districts
NY logos
Cave painting
Three positive monkeys
Cultural celebrations
Indifference to negation
molest n.
Zeugma: crack
batting
Not necessarily redundant
Portmanteaus: juvenoia
Big Bill Broonzy and the truth
First and bests
The Danglerology Project
Our writers and scholars at work
Wrapped in the flag
Breaking news!
A shortened version of Richard
Hot wieners for the 4th
Star-spangled banners and my country
Telephonoscopy
Buddy Holly
Verbing: dildo
telephon-
Thesaurisizing
SAI survey
Mishearing
Gay spaghetti
Pornmanteaus
Flora
Today’s comment spam
Cy Twombly
portmanteaux?
Indecency?
After VPprp
X happens
Active bottoms
A puzzle with whose-relatives
Portmanthology
Playing with morphology
Clichéfest
Bathing costume
Bastille Day
The Antisocial Network
For the Angelenos
Soffatelli, pastachetti, pepperoni, diavolini
Ottergether
The social media backlash
Morse code
Two deaths in the arts
Idioms: got your back
More on idioms
More on Google+
Real names
Prefix foolishness
Weaseling and wheedling
More -((m)a)geddon
Annals of ISOC
Underlaying
Today’s delicious ambiguity
On my website
Pangram in action
Awesomeness
Same-sex marriage
Saul Steinberg on activity and stativity
Inexplicated
Exclaiming euphemistically
Lucian Freud
Dubious portmanteaus
Favorite postings
Disregarding context
Name chains
We are everywhere
Sunday Punnies #16
Pejorative portmanteaus
Boldly going
Blogs and resources II
Restored!
muskox(en)
Portmanteaus: boonerang
American Gothic
What I’ve been doing
Premodifier, postmodifier
happenly
demonational, denomational, whatever
X of death, killer X
Style sheet tyranny
Jack Marburger
fantastication
The icon hunt
Undermining the army
Critical thinking
Portmanteau cleverness, plus drama kings
From the puns desk
Menu madness
More X happens
On my X blog
Kurt Vile
When hell freezes over
Go high or go low
Vajazzled!
as would’ve
Categories and tags
-mageddons and -pocalypses
Criterial features
bork (the portmanteau)
Today’s language advice in verse
Reversal in the heat of the sexual moment
Anna Siewierska
depends + WH-clause
Another transitive depend
Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium
Highway whateverism
Creations and control
More notional-subject NomConjObs
From Edward Gorey
SOS
More on pepperoni
Munch up to date
Haefeli on NomConjObjs
Last night’s dreamanteau
Facial expressions
The miracle of human speech
Zippy makes a sandwich
Corndogs and their ilk
Isn’t it bromantic?
Satanic fast food
Zippy subs, take 2
Think of the children
Cartoon POP
Marisol
More egotism
few and far in between
The martyrdom of St. Jeremy
catastrophic planning
bottoming
Bromantic lexicography
Reversed blame
Uncle Tomming
Pepsification
confirmed bachelor
porta-festation
Twin primes
Soul survive
Hallelujah
Awake, my soul
Disjunctive syllogism
Transitivity fail
Hooray for Ollywood
stupefication
A little libfixfest
Labor omnia vincit
News of the World
Today’s presumable cutnpaste
Telescoped portmanteaus
lobster?
Tennis and double anapests
Today’s anagram and initialism
Penis-to-penis
Today’s portmanteau
getting your money worth
What are pockets for?
Maternal qudgments
actually
-uzzle
noodling
R!
Keeping clean
A moment of silence
Collages on AZBlogX
Annals of truncation: truncated rather
Comic pronouns
Methodology, argumentation, evidence
F**k You, Penguin
The news for penises
Evolutionary epistemologist
This month’s unpalatable portmanteau
Collage crop
Venn diagramming for nerds
Tool collages 1: R-rated
Tool collages 2
Tool collages 3: cute animals
Tool collages 4: serious animals
New on my website
Richard Hamilton
Data points: missing P 9/18/11
Marc Chagall
software development
September 19(th)
Dubious bromanteau
+of EDM on the march
The homos vs. the godless
Aussie English
It Gets Better
My funny serpentine
Nation? Country?
Dysprosium
Data points: idiom blends 9/24/11
titular
More additions to my website
More Zippy burlesque
Contaminated by 9/11
Eugene Nida
Annals of metonymy
Gayboys going ARRR!
than stuff
Financial back-formation
Comma chameleons
Category in need of a label
Forgetfulness
Vik Muniz (and me)
The velocitized Toad
Frontier Scrabble
indaba
Weekend portmanteau crop
The context of danglers
Branding
Unprovoked subject whom
diddly squat
Syntax without the bumps
crabsticks
Auxiliary Reduction in the comics
Externalization of verbal inflection
re-up
Fellating a memory
Blue horses
On my X blog
Supercharged Sno Balls
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/10/09/it-all-depends-on-your-point-of-
view/
Soft palettes
non3
Annals of abbreviation
New on my website
Semantic reversals 1: ancestor/descendant
Admanteaus
Quoting modestly
cyclical, secular
cursive
NCOD 2011
A lexicographic mystery
More bottoms
to first-hand experience
More October holidays
Bobos
Bizarro puns
Frank Kameny
“phonetic sounds”
feel like that
Annals of verbing
that which won’t die
Another dubious portmanteau
Two Stein books
Annals of taboo avoidance
which/that
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
I x NY
Adverb play
Found poetry
sg or sg = pl
one-syllabus answers
John McCarthy
Word surprise
Linguists at play
Morphological analysis
The season of penis and vagina
Taboo avoidance in Canada?
Today’s silly pun
Inevitable portmanteau
Slang books
work
for on the desktop
textiling
Early writing
The coming -ocalypse
Hallowphallicity
Tom Seligman
Dancing With the Starving
Learning to talk (in)appropriately
David Fenton
Formulaic language brought to life
Distraction on AZBlogX
Odds and ends
The inevitable OWS pun
Gay test
The power of intonation
Melissa Bowerman
BBoW
Smart kid
Disco
Big words
From talking about the word to using it
Repurposing beef
The rumor mill
Rock shrimp
in the private eye
Alphabetizing
On the spam comment front
GenX so
NP dative on the edge
a long ago
Taking notes
Where the humor stems
Annals of anatomical vocabulary
X is the real Y
Food and drink postings
seem as if that
Found poetry
Prairie Flandrins
Accents
The Food Issue, with pesto
More found poetry
Rigo at SFMOMA
Rex Slinkard
Swans
The mother-in-law solution
Learning to curse
Drifting as far as
Saint Cecilia
Allentown riff
The goofy joke
Annals of masculinity studies: the face
Punctuating relatives
The Seidlitz elf
Product satire
Thanksgiving meals
Turkey improvisations
Conrad Zwicky
Christmas music update
Two obits
Another Science Times headline
Childegreens
Cartoon technical talk composite modifier pile-up example
The holiday season
Bizarro POP
The end of books, or maybe grammar
Peeving etc. postings
Anticipation
An experiment
Annals of causativization
Rudolph in Northfield
Respecting beliefs
Borrowing texts
Text and tune
Puma in pink
Haikupons
The body and its parts
Bad language school
Typo
A press avail
4G / fourgy
Messing with words
Ken Russell
Pedigree information
Cannibal shrimp
Nothing into something
Collaboration
Rudy the Christmas Elf
Stereotypical behavior
Meaty pong
Bibliana
autistic again
Face to face
Male photo shoots
New frontiers in overlaps
Chicken verdicchio
Food families
Peking on Mystic
Black keys
Text+Tune
Recognition
On the bulldog watch
Language news in the NYT
Musical memories
Amazing Grace notes
Madonna of the Memories
Quiffs and anglicization
More memories
Jargon?
LOLcats and captions
Latkepalooza
More Christmas music
Hunks and their sacks
Drone-marry
Concavities
Wossamotta U
The Queen’s Christmas Message
Parent and kid
Dream linguistics
Eskimo N in Texas politics
A toast in 1982
Christmas greetings
The Dingburg Daily Dose
Gift chocolates
Blood-sucking portmanteau
Christmas elves
Dinosaur snowclone
Their hearts were young and gay
Come Thou Fount
The night before Christmas
Data points: interpreting compounds 12/25/11
Jewish portmanteaus
Sticking it to Saint Sebastian
Hippopotamuses and other Christmas wants
Hair
pornwear
Harry Morgan and abbreviations
Poet among the painters
Six tunes, at least that many texts
Major Foxhall Alexander Daingerfield and his children
sporting huge ironic wood
Helen Frankenthaler
Irreducible complexity
Names
Tamara de Lempicka
2011 in review
My Favorite Things
The many faces of male friendship
Late entries in the gay Santa sweepstakes
Ann in 1984
The other Winns
A dozen+ on my website
Data points: interpreting compounds 1/3/12
Scientor
Gravestones
Rin Tin …
Roll-A-Bout
Portuguese Hymn
Three deaths
Mother and child
gastropub
From the urinal desk at AZBlog
Names of the year
Separated spellings
Zippy bops
“or words to that effect”
Implicit attention
More Zippy bop
Vignettes from gay life
More vignettes from gay life
Significant otters
Strong language
Art, politics, and music
Wrapping it up
BB
Electronic life
Surreal estate
Ask AZBlog: passive query
A modicum of emoticons
Fan
Evensong
Dreams
Disco Duck
Things she did
Wienerfest
kicking fanny
Beatnik poetry, invented and found
Carbon dating
Creative misreading
Christians
sneak peak
nauseous
When penguins fly
Dinosaur Grammar
Fucking ambiguity
Fiction rule of thumb
Happy Penguin Awareness Day
What she wrote
Dubious ad
abdominable
Accusative subject
Disclaimer for all occasions
“a word now shunned”
The geek voice?
gay gazebo
Reportage
Extraction from adverbial subordinate clause
A bunch of condescending pedants
Queer comics
Today’s word reversal
Object gap + subject gap
Building 20
Wordless cartoons, words-only cartoons
DJ names
Mario Lopez stripped
Cardinal sin
-poo- mixes
Etymology-Man
erection enhancer
Cartoon 1: What kills people
Cartoon 2: Homonym Vampire
Cartoon 3: Snowman up!
Cartoon 4: Guy advice
fag food
A little milestone of sorts
Noun pile examples
The appearance of Xing
Waffles and gnocchi
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/02/02/8827/ Electronic(s) N
Are penguins amphibians?
sonneteer
Pasta books
Super Bowl L?
Ben Gazzara
Framing drinks
The Cult of Beauty
Completism
The big reveal
monkey-spank
The power of collocation
Sonnet to the G Train
Officialdom’s semantics
The Regents exam
Valenpizza
SemFest 13
tampering
Hot comics
Proud to be an American
ish and masculinity
Suggestive
Valenpenguins
Clitics on a t-shirt
How can I put this?
Reductio on all sides
Pairmanteaus
Homactu
bedbug / bed bug
Unfree variation again
Dildo lamps?
Gay venery
I feel like sushi
Punnies #21
Head on a bed of penguins
The Chink files
Antedating
St. Pancake’s Day
Grammar shit
It’s All Grammar
Misfired indirection
Martyrdom
A milestone
Nerf Vortex Nitron Blaster
Clash of the facemen
The end of The New Y
face compounds
Vic Yngve
On the garmmra watch
Two photographers
motion, movement, move
Ben Cohen
In Tours
Language shards
Language instruction fun
Trendsetting
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/02/29/slang-connotations-too-unfortunate-
to-explain/
OUT in Linguistics
Aphasia
The Metafortress
Take a leek
lady-wave
anyways etc.
The news for penguins
On the avoidance watch
Literary aphasia
geysers
monkey grinder
The pin-pen merger
Zippy names
Grammandos and more
Reanalysis and reinterpretation
laterality ‘sidedness’
The twinkmeister
And on bears…
pho x 4
Portmanteau bots
persons
Trannysaurus
Lunar matters
Summer in the comics?
Burlesques, parodies, playful allusions
At 8
In the proper conditions,…
-tobers
picturesque
Amazing libretti
Annals of nouning: creative
Alphabeticals
Parts: vulva and vagina
Liverpool to Dingburg
The news for gnus
Annals of nouning: hang
St. Patrick
Edward I as Oliver Cromwell
Monster Mash
Phonological resolution
A double-barreled summative
Morphology
language ‘bad language’
Horror movies
man-bro-guy-
The perils of advice
to oxter
Our fastidious authors
Jon Bon Jovi
unfair / not fair
Food puns
On the bro- watch
“Structure” or “work of art”
Annals of mishearing
Flat denial
Zippy and Zerbina were pinheads
Mara Chibnik
The tone but not the words
more bro
where … at
Imperative, declarative
Annals of avoidance
Prepared for art
Formal logic
Men on AZBlogX
language ‘content’
Adrienne Rich
-phones around the world
Earl Scruggs
Anita Steckel
More tone without the words
Useful words
Dinner table conversation
a good/bad nervous
aerosol art
Linguists as villains
Redundancy vs. simplicity
hopefully
Our philoprogenitive congressmen
Double dactyl for Easter
Occupy English
Turing at 100
Distinguished linguist
almost not
fugues
Body language
Sandwich portmanteaus: lepicdary
Innovative EDM
Autistic literalism
rebuttal, the verb
Alongside the big reveal
Rejection
Another -kini
The news for pet rodents
More unfortunate names
Cartoon matters
Notes from school
The Gray Lady avoids
Using a racial slur
Lexicon Valley
Anaphora in the park
Transylvania
flymanteaus
excessed
huge-quiffed schlemiel
The body language of dogs
Who(m) to V
Viewpoint reflexive?
Gender-appropriate playthings
Odds and ends
Peanuts vs. the grammar nazis
Anniversaries
Big roadside attractions
On AZBlogX
Bookends
The drag news for linguists
Dilbert 1: managerspeak
Dilbert 2: engineers and knowledge workers
Cartoon potatoes
Me no likie?
doing X
A Zitsmanteau
No word for hot flashes in Japanese?
Penguin cats
Fun with spelling errors
A Liberian puzzle
Reversed CLEAR verbs
GenXso at 60?
Two remarks on reversals
Puntoon for the weekend
The world of grammar
Annals of French taboo avoidance
Dairy humor
This week’s best job title
live close?
Old recipes I: Mrs. Curtis
Old recipes II: Libby Daingerfield
Old recipes III: milk pie
flaming
Damn you, Dryden!
Structural ambiguities
Lexicosexual note: throuple
Disband the band
Aesthetic judgments
learning analytics
Idiolect or style level?
The perils of commas
rock snot
Days
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/05/old-recipes-iv-george-leonard-
herter/
YouTube wrapup
The All Are Belong snowclone
Dog-naming
Nursery songs
A batmanteau
Zmanteaus
xkcd back-formation
Zeugmatic McDonald’s
wantology
Missile phallicity
Reporting the profane
Swine Lake and Sendak
umbrella-reflect?
More reporting the profane
Bimbos and himbos
Branding Shakespeare
Drag king days
times, the verb
The frugal typographer
The Swiss national anthem
Rainbow commas
Alison Bechdel
A topical -mageddon
Fresh -istas
Gag cartoons
More gay flag
Quant of whom
henges
The penguin chronicles
Edward Lear at 200
Commencement speeches
Dirty bird research
Anniversary times
Another informal WH construction
T-bars
More quiffs
hot herbivores
Thorny days
The language of the animals
A turn of phrase
like you and I
English the borrower
Manly superlatives
Nominative intensified objects
Teese
Taste in film
Annals of garment phallicity
New words from John Waters
coincident, the noun
Creepy phallicity
That’s WH!
Inversion
Technical distinctions
Portmanteau, then clip, then analogize
The queering of the metrosexual
Marriage and divorce
Geek days
Multiversemanteau
a rethink
I am UndocuQueer!
Pronoun case double-header
Vampire detective
Arôme Saveur Penis
Inevitable -mageddon
The power of lore and dogma
Comics books
Obits
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/28/why-is-this-night-different-from-
all-others/
What motivates academics?
translating, interpreting
Martial holidays
kiss this guy etc.
Little /majt/, big /majt/
The construction worker and the penguins
Raymond Briggs
Lexical gap filled!
Annals of masculinity
Annals of masculinity: scent department
Wooden Hebrew magnets
Annals of mishearing
Picksboiger cartoons
allow to be taxed
sum / summon
Generalized word rage
Surfer lingo
The hopefully files
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/06/02/as-a-spar/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/06/03/balloons/
On the masculinity beat
The craftsman
I say STD, you think FTD
Sexual slang
Gaydar in the news
Cartoons on-line
Eggcorn to portmanteau
singletail (and flowertail)
X porn
Zippy art
Lowlife dialogue
Ota Benga and scientific racism
Comic decline
A foodmageddon
Excrescent ‘s
The Grammar Police
No word, no concept, no experience
Retirements
Piety
Gopher tuna!
Honey Badger don’t care
Discontinuous overlapping
La Victoria
Plain talk in the NYT
Zits language
More Zits language
Death at play
Cole slaw
look at who them was
The invention of grammar, peeving, and counterpeeving
The Reaperclone
A gay pride
Anniversaries
Everyday twisters
For Dad
Meat math
The Colbert Ellipsis
Cartoon conventions
Emotions are relational
a big little kitchen
More cartoon conventions
The sexual depravity of penguins
coastal resilience
Dammit Jim
Wedding day
Arrowheads
Negatives and positives
Gay cowboys
Seasons
Coal mimers
The New Y for Zippy
Calling resumptive pronouns
cufflings
Slexicographic notes: sploshing
Ask AZ: there there
experiencing an employment loss
June Brides
Meta-Zippy
Ask AZ: I want to wish you a Merry Christmas
A Proustian moment
Family Circus
On the non-eggcorn beat
Mickey Mouse in the old days
A Sunday pun
Higgsmanteau
Tijuana bibles
The young Yoda
More meta-Bizarro
From South America
Judith Wallerstein
Word horror
Still more gay flag
Misnaming update
Meaty puns
bac(k)ne, buttne, etc.
Bullshit etymology
Adam and Pingu in the Garden of Eden
For Stonewall Day
The lure of Low Attachment
On the portmanteau watch
Two plants of the season
The Cartoon Characters Assisted Living Facility
Mammoth (2006)
Dinosaur Comics
What part of X don’t you understand?
Rainbow cookie facepalm
The perils of fronting
never-smokers
Extreme bibliophilia
A cyberlanche
Ch- ch- changes
That’s so gay!
flashing
The passage of time in the comics world
Annals of commercial verbing: showroom
On the garmmra watch: The Oatmeal
Straight arrow
We need to talk, more takes
Unusual creatures
Ask AZ: The F-word and “F-word”
Voiced S
Ed Fisher cartoons
New-ironic
Copernicus and Springsteen
Murillo’s, or Morelli’s, Lesson
Cartoon fingers
Dangling in the comics
The derecho guy
Garmmra meets expletives
Split those infinitives!
Potentially embarrassing acronyms
Chuck Fillmore
Off-putting grammar
Foreign language learning software
The dinosaur necklace
In the comics
Person or robot?
Dinner-table conversation
Laydeez do Comics
Everyday logic
Framing
Cow saws and mondegreens
Lupin(e)s
Flying the flag
More puns
The education report
Still more puns
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/16/data-points-plurals-in-compounds-
71612/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/16/the-buzz-on-melissa/
Labiates
Unprovoked subject whomever
More dubious portmanteaus
Cooties
unique from
You’re not the Boss of me!
Pad Thai
The inevitable POP
Dick Crazy
Magritte
Annals of edgy phallicity
Bizarro POP
Cavities
with whom
Dora Johnson
Opera news for penguins
The Pogo files
Artists in underwear
The sound in your head
More Alain Delon
Sporno again
Knowing
Annals of naming
George Miller
Today’s entertaining underwear
Outlaws with puns
job(s) market
Bay to Breakers 1991
When English teachers snap
Saussurean cartooning
Apostrophe Man, call Comma Man
Gay Messiah
Branding rules
Pun time in the monastery
Ask Emma Grice
The Mrowr and The Whine
Far Side puns
More t-shirt art history
Sunday puns
Crape myrtle
Amazing app
Cope & Guibert
More taboo avoidance in the NYT
Comics creation
The comma-swatter
Thurber cartoons
-phonies
Chain reasoning
4 from Gahan Wilson
Apologizing
glory hole
Letter vitamins
Olympic sex silliness
Pairings
Librarian humor
Garfield on modern communications
Calvin and Hobbes
The great wave of verbing rolls on
Taking things literally
Zwicky Fingers
On the taboo/slur watch
The Chairman laughs
How to get comments
Dude descending
Cursing
Batmaaaan!
On the ambiguity watch
Snakes, worms, fish, clams, slugs
Vintage Gay Comics
Fascinated with the history of English
NYT taboo avoidance fail
Space cadet
Voices of California
Caring less
More play with initialisms
Comic machines
Zomlingbies
Professor Branestawm
The caped psychopath gets flown to Ashtabula
Olympic exposure
More vintage comics
-core music
Taboo initialism avoidance
Brief mention: Accent perceptions
Brief mention: Technical terminology
Brief mention: Origin myths
Hate
Brief mention: malls
Grammar Dalek
Annals of phallicity: Wienermobile, banana slug split
More Olympic sexiness
David Rakoff
Proper anaphoric islands
Food vehicles
Zippyized
Breakfast at Zippy’s
Taboo initials (cont.)
Jack POP
Follow-up: The A-Word
Zippy’s movie career
(R)evolution
Against or for
Follow-up: Another breakfast
Paisleyesque
Foreign languages
VPL
Julia is 100
An old joke
New NYT modesty
Follow-up: Walter the Farting Dog
Follow-up: Ann, Bonnie, and Julia
Possessed by film noir
Fusion
Photos on AZBlogX
Adjectives
French dip
On the banana watch
Marjane Satrapi
The pussy patrol
Gaillardia
More A-word
Rape stories
commando
zinnias
Mystery plant
Three from Vietnam
Follow-up: rape stories
Garden-variety mishearing
Human furniture
Rhetorical questions as openers
X rape
Forbidden Planet
MLC in the news
Pandora’s inbox
Madonna Inn
Annals of nouning (and peeving)
Dialect adventures
Stray books
Cosmetic clippings
Nicknames and mascots
Two portmanteaus
Spelling rage
Repurposed comics
Minor League Baseball
Playful variations
Team names
sleepwalking
no small lift
Zits replay, slower and faster
Gidget and her friends
How so?
the river
Zits relevance
Fishy card games
QSV
The bat hole
Food art
Captain Obvious
to long grass
Calvin on how to write
Tyrannosaurian awesome sadness
Brief mention: glacier mice 8/30/12
Brief mention: invidious incorporations 8/30/12
Brief mention: writing between the lines 8/30/12
Brief mention: Chink, the slur 8/30/12
NomConjObj on the campaign trail
Bicycle cards
Deer in the headlights
Calvin x 3
Spasticus Autisticus
Mitticisms
Baudoinia
For the Ben & Jerry’s pun staff
Name that record store
Regions
off-color
Incorrection
Follow-up: reporting Eastwood
Begging to differ
Annals of regularization: deepfreezed
harriers
Noodo
desmans
The inside-outside strategy
Not mentioning
Still more fun with initialisms
Happy Birthday
Brief mention: an inadvertent blend
More perils of advice
Dinosaur puns
boxercide
Take my wife
Nighthawks
Snoopy on editing
Overlapping
Dangler rage
Goat accents
Tones
Mockbusters
Goose dialects
Wally Wood
micropolitans
politicals
Laundromat dialectology
That smell and taste
Another notable business name
until the eagle grins
Insult crimes
T-shirts
More Canadian raising
Moroni
Dream works
Name that healthcare marketplace
Avian Olympics
Cartoon diagramming
Urban areas
cater to
Central Park senryu
Timesly taboo avoidance
mooch(er)- words
Affliction
Relevance and unspoken assumptions
toad
Tongue twisters
underfeet
Awareness of variation
Private meanings
Brief mention: nouning of adjectives
From the reflexives files
The Jetsons
plasmatic
Live-action graphic novel
Writing advice
Day of Atonement
Monosyllabism
Correction of the Week
Lift up your heads, O ye gates
Astonishing NYT volte-face
Your future in academia
dispose ‘dispose of’
ho made
Digital physical humor
Course preparation
Plural clothing
ÆØÅ
Mapping the territory
Useful but rare vocabulary
F/C malaprop
Blog news
On the ethnic slur watch
go with
Poerody
Chinese & taco
On the octopus watch
Yesterday’s vocabulary items
Planning at an abstract level
Steadman’s Boids
stud muffin
Brief mention: craisins
Portmanteaus of past lives
Ving N
Semantic reversals 2: benefactor/beneficiary
via
Brief notice: headlines
Today’s dreadful pun
Brief mention: our modest medicos
Thesaurus rex
Pulpit Freedom Sunday and Bible banners
Brief mention: the Cool Mom Test
Complex reversal: confuse
Brief mention: words and things
in lieu of
Source or object?
Andy Singer
A tribute to Life in Hell
More medical talk
The hedonistic monks of Mount Syntax
Syncretism
Brief mention: euphemism
NCOD
Bob’s Big Boy
Evidence and belief
Brief mention: equal time for NomConjObjs
Celeriphilia
Avoiding a split infinitive
Brief bio for Jacques
Classical malapropisms
Posting tweets
Ink on paper vs. paint on canvas
Pronouncing names
Detroit Industry
Twittering
Annals of cataphora
Inference
subtexting
Looking modern(e)
gypsum weed etc.
Sign of the times
For short
Taboo avoidance trio
Windmills and giants
Public slogans
Mistaken identity
Punctuation marks
Possessive controller for SPAR
Marc Bessange
Bible banner news
The lexicon of art supplies
Walking in the rain
AZBlogX compendium
Call for papers: Lavender Languages
The sad tale of Higgs Bison
The Invisible Man
The silent tiger-duck
What makes it a book?
Reality denialism
Three headlines
repropriate
Rainbow fruit
Please remove your cats
The upcoming storm
Another round of repropriation
synovial
The do(ugh)nut news for Halloween
The domestic relevance duels
Ziegler on toast
Odds and ends
Halloween Giants
On cartoons
razor tight
At the sign of the Z
Christmas, sweet Christmas
Brief mention: legalversary
Brief mention: more impastas
to cath (redux)
Halloween stud
Franken meets gate
George Booth
Bob Stockwell
No PMNs seen
Sark
Icelandic for Dummies
Who’s your primary?
Marla and Margo’s Wedding
Lesbo brides
Lesbo bride meets NY girl
The honeymoon trip
A batch of back-formations
Scouts in Bondage
Gunpowder treason
Facework
Dance with the one that’s nearest?
Inhabiture
Ay papi!
Brief mention: toolbook
Bubbles
Taboo not appropriate
We don’t need no steenkin’ land lines
Repetitions
Toga toga toga!
Breathless
Three musicians walk into La Côte Basque…
After the election
Mary Azarian
Joe McKendry
Cartoon proverbs
Brief mention: Calder’s forks
Pre-op days
Velasco strikes again, trochaically
A charm
Sylvia
Wong Huang Butterfly Hwang
Surgical luck
More surgery
Ducks
Thanksgiving poem
Fixing things
Decline of the comics
Pure verb
Brief mention: F/C malapropism
Mammoth matters
Barbara Kruger
Dr. Zippy
Packaging content into words
More rainbow fruit
Truncated lame duck
Brief mention: a racy sandwich blend
White House holiday
The war on errorism
More threats to the body politic
Libfix tech disasters
Nightmare stories
Poetic intersection
Ab-vengers
Intentional reshaping
Brief mention: the chamois shirt
Brief mention: More wiping
derpy
Alpacas on the march
Word order death
2012 Christmas music bulletin
sprouts
Two Big Happies
Little popliteal moments
Holiday greetings
The fruits of abstraction
What is this postcard of which you speak
Sexual clippings
Coming back to life
The underwear elves of 2012
Noun incorporation in Gayland
Double dactyl in Dutch
Famous models
The holiday ball
Convention event?
Commando no more
Stehpinkeln
Lucy
Tell us a story
TMI
Language play log
Emoticons amok
The meta-Zippy
Getting them to believe
The gay underwear anthem
Christmas dinner
Obamadon
peened
It’s all in the wrists (and nowhere else)
The freshman seminar proposal
Bad word alert!
Do Californians have an accent?
Brief takes 12/20/12
Not fully functional
Pocket reference to half-rhyme
Through all the changing scenes of life
Soft serve
Still more Christmas music
Dude Wipes
Vestigial design elements
Triumph of the nerds
The multicultural Christmas playlist, mostly “Jingle Bells”
greeblies
Regrettable Christmas songs
Oh no, not a pony!
A Dingburg Christmas
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/12/25/brief-notice-holiday-portmanteau-122512/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/12/26/not-x-but-y/
Confidence (and Bear Creek)
The wonders of spam
Praise singing
French infestations
Gay Santas
Spam poetry
The Dingburger bar bat, or barbat
David Arnot
Twigs, grahams, and puffs
The dobro
Tiptoe
Paternity
Rhyme, rhyme, I need a rhyme
An English teacher
Morning erections
Bobbing and weaving with the Gray Lady
The perils of euphemism
A split-antecedent dangler
Today’s useless portmanteau
Bob & Edith’s
Two cartoons
occasional
Realism plus
A matter of size
Putting the man in manicure
The news for libfixes
A matter of size II: The sale
Colors
On-line resources
Wuggiana
Relativizer choice
The H-fly
Accent on Santa Skivvies
Annals of phallicity: the carrot connection
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/01/19/kino-sekigushi/
Annals of phallicity: the light switch
Horror of the penis
Another male photographer
Porn / art
Spain Rodriguez
Watersports
Bruce Weber
Define “living room”
Ocho Loco Press
Reinventing NYC
baguette
Antonio Frasconi
boys
Annals of phallicity: the breadstuffs
cowtailing
Fear of Twitter
sexuality
Annals of phallicity: toy guns
Magnetic synesthesia
DARE VI
Dominic Monaghan
Male models as jocks
Explanations and understandings
Another invented “rule”
concordance ‘example, occurrence’
The vocabulary of blight
On AZBlogX: fashion and Falcon stars
Lore
bb
Conversion, solidification, and externalization
Cooking with T-Rex
The Gray Lady stands her ground
God’s preferred languages
laughing out loudly
Annals of phallicity: or are you just happy to see me?
Dingburger faces and gestures
(Re)name that book
The Koch bleep
Annals of obscene gestures
The decimators
not publicly acknowledged
England and Wales
Swiss American
The colors of passion
Emily Flake
Tivaship
In a syntactic quandary
Shapiro on quotation dictionaries
The inevitable verbing
Subjectless predicative adjuncts
Lunar New Year: the snake
Java Jive
Winter storms
Valentime’s Day
Tony Duran
Dean Keefer
The scandal of English grammar
Dan Throsby
Ad hoc categorizations
scrimshaw
A word for it
Followers
Fenwick
Crotch Rocket
Cosa Nostra Grammatica
Abbreviation
rescue dog
Chocolates
Commercial categories: gay sex toys
dong
wank
Phony rules
john
NomPrepObj
Terminological precedence
English pronunciation
Michael Taubenheim
Underdog
Eggcorns on the net
Matt Groening
Words
Spouse vocabulary
Dario Beck
Doing the Zwicky
Mondegreen stuff
Jim French / Rip Colt
Fetish/kink porn
Kristen Bjorn
abuse
easier fed than understood
The Bayloo puzzle
The Two Ronnies
Annals of back-formation
Sunday funnies
Going against nature
Syllabic approximants
Peter and Paul
The Telephone game
Another winter storm
vasovagal syncope
Chattiness again
Comparative ambiguities
Chicken and waffles
Cymbidiums
Chicken and waffles (the chip connection)
Today’s food portmanteau
twangs
Rebranding and mustiness
Cock tease
Zippialliterate
Edging
Words matter
More fetish/kink
Spam comment watch
A little quote
More sexual terminology
Tea Party verbing
Fruit phallicity
AZBlogX notes
The first swallow
What do Linguists do?
cyclamens
Two great dames
conclave
Another split antecedent dangler
Science Talent Search
bullying
perils of wisdom
Naming rights
Zippy absurdity
Horton and the detective mystery
soft/hard
Linguistics dreams
concussion
wisteria
Three underwear postings
podocarpus
Fun with domain names
One Big Happy roundup
Copyright
flimflammier
pi
Texting while talking
Can we talk?
The title saga
More needing to talk
Porn/art
portmantart
Men’s and women’s brains in Dingburg
Flowering pears and secretions
Stone fruits, nuts, and berries
sea cucumbers
NuttyBuddies and Nutty Buddies
The Hamm knuckle
Maximum availability
dress left/right
Surrealists
Dance belts
Snowboard Zippy
Cyanide and Happiness roundup
Size again
More shirtlifting
The Trocks
Over on AZBlogX
Men kissing
David Vance
Carl Larsson
noisette
Context, jargon, and clipping
Truncated what the fuck
The masochism spectrum
Straight vs. gay orgasms
Metropolitan Diary notes
Abutilon and its relatives
Misreading
Peeps
More alliteration
More on the Truly Huge
Vocabulated
Crimplene
More misreading
Bell pepper sex
Colored bottoms
Toys and massage on AZBlogX
Cal Watkins
Five-Ku on Channing Tatum
Vampire Manga Dog condo
On the complex pun watch
Sticky expressions
Another pun from yesterday
Gossip
On AZBlogX: threesomes, penis appreciation
The Great Language Change Hoax
Earworm therapy
Nouning in the NYT
Glass eels
scruffalicious
scruffilicious
eggs over easily
Taco sauce
Calendars: Boy Next Door, Philip Fusco
John Gumperz
The wave of the future
Finger talk
Food presentation
Maximum exposure on AZBlogX
More group sex on AZBlogX
Listening
husband
The news from AZBlogX: twinks, Close Up, scruff cum
Garfield Minus Garfield
buck-rake
Correction time
fag bag
Ralf König
On the pun watch
sugar daddy
An unfortunate mishearing
A very old joke
Man Ray
being like
Double entendres
Ups and downs
The books are watching them
Obits
Captioning: Porn stars at play, with their beetles
Zippy’s commercial names
tree nuts
Signage
A trade
Body language and Lithuanians
Brief notice: boss 4/12/13
Cubism
Ducati and Ares
Manliness and money
Sex/gender symbols
Four more obits
More sex/gender symbols
ship my pants
boss
Misspelling my name
The news for penguins
Synthetic compounds and back-formed verbs: rape
Pun for April 15th
Photography in San Francisco I: Gordon Parks
Synthetic compounds and back-formation: go-go truth-telling
NPR team and the perils of transcription
Initialistic ambiguity
Photography in San Francisco II: Garry Winogrand
Dream weirdness
Dream weirdness: the song
Yet another synthetic compound / back-formation
Penguins and tuxedos
The adventures of AZ
Patrick Henry A Pseudonym
Infant Spidey
Arcane taboo avoidance
The Sturgeon General
On the portmanteau watch: Boston, coyotes
B.C. portmanteau
Indirect pun
Liz Climo
The IvanFest
primroses
ranunculus
Brief mention: men and women in Maryland
More on modern communications
Gay greens: the Big Two
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/04/22/brief-mention-the-probably-
unintentional-pun/
Zao Wou-Ki
Acronymic pun
More news for penises
Reduplicative compounds
On the sex / gender watch
Facebook bizarreness
Blue pun
Palindrome time
Dialect time in the comics
Irregularized jack-knives, regularized jack-knifes
The new word slash
Cambridge Rindge and Latin
More girlish chattiness
Legitimacy of comics
Telling jokes
On the porn watch: from facial hair to sex in suits
Spoonerisms for fun
oobleck
Brief mention: a portmant
The far reaches of GoToGo
Konigsburg, Rowling, and pen names
digitalis / foxglove
Syntax on the move
chicano
End of The Empire
Nick Danger: an appreciation
The album cover
Spoonerism Day
Zippymorphs
A multiplicity of uses
Cul de Sac
Mounties with guns
Gamma linole(n)ic acid and borage
penultimate
Questionnaires again
Acronym of the week
The 12-inch pianist
Jeff and Akbar explore their sexuality
Porn topics
clubbing
A five-pack
Autocorrect rules
clueless
Tacolicious
The protean Colby Keller
AZBlogX continuations
More rhesus humor
Brief mention: where … at
On the -mageddon watch
A Fibonacci day
Code 404
Sarcastic and literal
Pin-up boys
More swarmanteaus
Brief mention: punk band name news
The decline of the book
Moving people
More band names
From the annals of unintended phallicity
African ice rats
Listen to me
Plantanimals
Man shots
How ’bout them Cubbies?
Pub(l)ic notice
Brief mention: Hairspray mass nouning
smartass
Annals of ejaculation
Cattions
More cattions: Reh, Bjorn, Sekigushi
Blame Someone Else Day
Grocery store semiotics
genital nudity
half the Beast, the neighbor of the Beast
NY Post headlines
Morphology for swine
Manwich and Beefaroni as portmanteaus
Paul Sietsema
Another OBH roundup
Philip Taaffe
Demonyms
Vocabulary surprises
More shaker phallicity
Idiomaticity
Briefly noted: mind-bottling
Annals of insult crimes
Two mother songs
Sex sells
X or not?
Bizarro portmanteau
Define “garbage”
Passions
Briefly noted: the shalom of curse words
Annals of innuendo and ambiguity: from 10PerCent
Briefly noted: endorsements for skills or expertise
Three penultimate comments
hairy Harry and the asparagus
This week’s best title in an academic journal
Verbing garbage
Not your typical pornstar
The Bare Boys
Annals of phallic animation
News on the edible penguin front
News on the edible penis front
The liquor-poker joke
Departments: There’ll always be an England
Departments: Amazing food
Possessive ambiguity
Gnome puns
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/05/26/15311/ (Word avalanche)
Adulthood
raw sex
Links to AZBlogX
spacefaring
louden
On the mistakes patrol
Porn play
The head tilt
don’t know
average
Blessed Assurance on Broadway
Cattions 4
Portmanteau news
Dilbertmanteau
Transposed proverbs
cartoony
More boys
The start-up interview
The opposite of bareback
The metastrip
Penguin cartoon
A holiday I missed
funyak
Bottoms and tops on AZBlogX
whoopee cushion
Albert York
In the midst of death we are in life
Extreme Twinkies
Meta-Pearls
Have an X, have a Y
Explorations in derivational morphology
Class accents
Speed dating talk
investigational
Non-hair quiffs
tapping
Breakfasts
Religious double pun
Define “collaborate”
Crowdsourced lexicography
Cigarette phallicity
Rosenberg’s Laws of Robotics
Cattions and Kliban cats
Not dead, but…
Foodmanteaus
Shapenote postings
Linguistic clues to time travel
-licious sex
Cullum on morphology
Penguin cartoons
Osteoarthritic portmanteau
Rhyme chains
Innovations
Schnoebelen at idibon
Brief mention: telescoping
Four on AZBlogX
Quotatives
Holidays and occasions
On the compound watch: ice nations
Question period
Reading the comics
bacopa
Rainbow cone
Gendered stickers
stoned
Annals of phallicity: the penis cake pan
What causes wind?
Mock Old English
Rainbow pousse-café
exoneree
Arnie Levin
Poppies, lilacs, and lilies
The ottoman empire
Annals of ambiguity: more 10PerCent
Language evolution, cartoon summary
forbs
Packages in jeans
On the comics page
Cinderella 1957
Over on AZBlogX
Zesty Anderson Davis
More gay greens
Springing into summer
Coping with figurative language
terminal sire
Stella Dallas
Stimulating and desensitizing
Claude Smith
meet cute
Idiomatic meta-strips
For June 26th
McCoy
Website and blog changes
Annals of sex positions
Rainbow Gromit
Naked came the ad
mimosa
Poultry in motion
Choosing words
Rainbow pizza, rainbow underwear
Rainbow Empire Building
Once again, same-sex relationships in the New Yorker
Gestures and symbols
Shirtless on the Great Plains
Return to Oz
Context
Screwball comedy
Penis from Heaven
Briefly noted: pronouncing Lutz
Another shirtless North Dakotan
Lycanthropic shirtlessness
Onomatopoeia in the comics
The Word of God
A somber anniversary
Tennis hunks
Music and words
From absentee-vote to zero-tolerate
It’s been a slice
On the unicorn watch
Comic vocabulary
Saturday comics
At the X line with remarkably named pornstars
Moose Knuckles Canada
More dubious portmanteaus
My saint’s day
croquettes
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/08/fur/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/08/a-murder/
How do I look?
Sexual lexical semantics
It was 42 years ago today…
Cartoon stubble
Flouting Quantity
Sexy olive oil
Sconic sections
Steve Grand, DNA, Timoteo
More tennis hunks
Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”
More meta-cartoons
Name notes
A name puzzle
Arguing on the internet
Word divisions
twerking
Sex on the magazine cover
Another gay back-formed verb
Revolution at school
Three sex workers
Piratical Pope
Remarkable names
The gay old days
Turn-ons
Internet enlightenment
Captioned croppings
Brief notice: judg(e)ment
Surprising etymologies
Brief notice: urinary similes
Gay cookbooks
namesake
Seize the day
In quotation marks
Taking idioms seriously
More sexual slang
pizzle
Respecting each other
Baseball days
As the car drives
take it as a given
More Magritte
Odds and ends: portmanteaus to penises
Pied-Piping Day
SRS: the music video
Asterixions
The fourth wall
Brief mention: “You onion-peel so slowly”
Being someone else
Yoda again
The name game
barihunk
Benedictine and its kin
‘male anus viewed as a sexual organ’
Recruiting men
Annals of phallicity: Carlos Danger at bay
Heaps of fun
Two portmanteaus in the mail
marigolds
Ice cream time
Rude Britain
Wallyjargon
The tao of pain
Marc Simont (and James Thurber)
be toast
Crisis talk
pure bread
Interpreting photographs
Groovin’ on the Glocken
More misunderstanding
Annals of phallicity: the drill crotch
(little) fat sheep
Wednesday puns
crescendo
Zits goes self-referential
The Thursday pun
No more low scores
The Luffa and the Wompom
Dialect notes for geeks
Two books on gay porn
Manufactured remarkableness
It’s all about the abs
Zippyrefs
Admirable packages
Saturday funnies
The Weinerfest rolls on
The city in scrapwood
Interacting with Maggie Thatcher
Howls in Bayreuth
On the Weiner watch
The queen of South Jersey diner haiku
Speech bubbles
Three more cartoons for Sunday
Gang showers
On AZBlogX: couples, rear views
Another Tundra penguin, still flightless
Seven Supermen and Brad Pitt
Chokecherries and Ulmer
Schlitzie again
Jockstrap Man, Hutspah shirts, and Nudie Cohn
Bilingual wordplay
Two punny moments
Symbols at ease
Another batmanteau
Are we at Pirate’s Cove yet?
Annals of identity
Don’t Bother to Knock
bat-, -mobile, and -man
Get Fuzzy pun
This month’s miracle green
Intense but opposite: petunias and cinerarias
News flash: sex continues to sell
Chef’s salad
Not your grandfather’s Sears catalogue
Annals of phallicity: the palm error
Cyanide word avalanche
crouch, squat, hunker
Define “open source”
man up!
Naughty Little People
tartare
Language trickery
Lavender and dill
tartar sauce
tarator
London Zoo animals
More Asterixions
Manga matters
More raw protein
Today’s baffling taboo avoidance
-less and -ness
Odds and ends 8/14/13
Moose plates
Ken Price
The Nauga
Celebrities
Hollywood Sparks
Odds and ends 8/16/13
Mashup: Mary Worth’s howl
Zesty Anderson Davis returns
Ugly animal preservation
Harsh sentences
The Astro Motel
Lee Lorenz, Matthew Barney, and more
Schlitzie one more time
Odds and ends 8/18/13
Tattoos on AZBlogX
quinoa
Anticipation
Almost-lost words
Baby names
No scatting
On cartooning
Five television hunks
Spike / Marsters
on the fritz
as good as
A clown puzzle
Forearms
Television hunks, separately and together
clean someone’s clock
BK twink
John Transue
Two stylists
Frizzles
Means of communication
Share the rainbow
expecting
Given over to desire
slashclip
puffins
Men and their pickles
pickles
Breaking up is hard to do
Pity Patty
Concealing by language
Today’s porn pun
Dinosaur language acquisition
Colorful talk
Notes on names
Genre studies
The hangman’s tale
Twerk time
Youthful balls
Vining menaces
Kissing the rose
Double double entendre
Surnames
Porn prosody
Brief mention: a genital portmanteau
scandal
E-mail addresses
cherry
Tasty names
Tasty names 2
frape
Colander song
Off to school
geek, dork, etc.
The written word
Cyrus – Timberlake
Use, mention, anaphora
Recursive sushi
On the Pearls pun beat
One more twerk
Today’s initialism
Journalese
Holidays
Joy of
Quisp and Quake
Data retrieval
Portmanteau fashion
kick-ass news
More NYT avoidance
sheds and scapes
Temper, temper
More Asterixions (with Warhol)
Riley/Xander
Brief mention: ellipsis over the line
Like, uptalk, and Miami
Back from the dead
Annals of lexicography
Annals of phraseology
In memory of Ivan Sag
Nine Inches
BearBoat
Ruthie v. English
disappoptimist
Cupcake sledding
Défonce Moi
Saturday morning showoff
serials
Condom humor
Poisoned land
Hot Austen
Playing with French morphology
Sheepish notes
Joe Boys
Sexual -zillas
Indian pipes
Why on Earth?
AZBlogX: rear view, full frontal, harnesses
Miscellany for 9/19/13
Two stories
Job description
Captain Underpants
Two from The Week
to clean up well/nicely
getting pelvic
The apostrophe and a non-dangler
Penguins and cartoon porn
link rot
David Hubel
New words for new times
Vulgar chant in the NYT
Perversion
More men on AZBlogX
selfie
The Grand Mufti of Google
Magritte at MOMA
More Yoda
X job
Another word from Jane Austen
Folsom Street Fair
Grammar mugs
Up Your Alley
Nursery rhymes
Captions on AZBlogX
Disregard for facts
Outrageous pun for the day
Rumpless and tufted
Swallow-bellied and furry
Male nudes
Pig misunderstands (again)
Pasta apologies
Alan Ritchson (and Justin Hartley)
Religious coffee pun
Argument structure mysteries
ballhawk
Marcella Hazan
The miracle of the penises
The zipless fuck
Michaelmas daisies
Today’s fine eggcorn
Sunday puns
Yes we can
dickhead, butthead, whatever
bitch
Puppy play
Speech balloons in Dingburg
Mountain ash
¡Sí Se Puede!
Last of the snarky fashion
Sunday Book Review language and sex
Brief notice: spinsters
Hyperbolic metaphors
Brief notice: singular they run wild
Hangul Day
traditional Czech triplecoat
screwage
sledge
Note on split antecedents
NCOD 2013
Model cats
palisade
Bizarro Saturday
Nobelist Alice Munro
The Great Lakes
Briefy noted: sarcasm in the Court
Briefly noted: uncivil political discourse
A Zippy Czech
Sunday funnies
English-Klingon bilingualism
Brief notice: jazz haiku
More dipspreads
Small dishes
Pooh
English teachers
Zippifixation
Snarky spelling and punctuation
Yet another -kini
Zippy: fun with names
Shirtless hypallage
Zippy on comic books
Burlingham Books
Apostrophe in plural
Logos
lose X
Zippy on comic art (plus fudge)
Bake and you shall receive
Watch your words
non sequitur
Jimmy Olsen
In the comics world
Briefly noted: bird strikes and avian radar
Ungrammatical truncation?
Al Hirschfeld
Mark Strand collages
Blessed relief
Swiss shirtlessness
Two cartoons
Zippy on the brain
dirty tricks
The Slants, still at bat
and it floats!
It floats! (ch. 2)
Remembering
Portmanteau news
Anecdote: the eagle in the bushes
The Czech finger
Antaeus
More palindromes
kale
Voicemail deadlock
Briefly noted: emphatic prenasalization
House men
More bottoms and tops
Briefly noted: tv film noir
make sure
girls, women, gals
Doubtful regress
Legality
Grotesque crash blossom
Campbell Drake
tarepanda
Three cartoons
Three-day weekend
On the phallic church watch
Animal -zilla
Today’s pun
Another animal portmanteau
Multiverse rap
White Man(n)a
The word for the day
Yellow vs. cardinal
Modern Diner
Posture photos
Name that cellist
Opinions
Comics on comics
Town Diner
/fer/ avalanche
lionhead
The Zippy diner watch
macho nachos
Asgardian
Lou Reed
wallflower
Another word avalanche
Cross-comic allusions
Naughty Xmas
Briefly noted: inversion
runners
synthoids
Course syllabus 2014
Penguin food
Two from Zippy
The Monday pun
Briefly noted: ad claims
Thanksgiving news
Architectural notes
Anniversaries and holidays
At Peg’s Diner
More Pig literalism
Diversity
Three penguin notes
Euclid again
Classical Spoonerism
Zippy’s rhymes
Means of communication
Mandela
Cartoon retirement
Cod loins
Strained Xmas portmanteau
Bare Essentials
eglantine rose
This week’s penguin links
More wild roses
Invisible in Eureka
Generational humor
Friday cartoons
Claus time
Quotations
Brief morphological notes
Genital plants
Xmas greetings
More for Xmas
Cross-comic talk
This year’s Santa skivvies
Xmas phallicity
My Favorite Year
More Santa skin
Fertility window
Santa penguins
An OED service
Cartoon omnibus
Sexy stuff
More sexy stuff
Zippirony
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/23/briefly-noted-its-not-a-razor/\
Language evolution
Xmas cartoons
A Christmas classic
Santa art
Seven Fishes
On the taboo avoidance watch
Doggie Diner
Another Xmas classic
Social memory
Headline news
Another Pearls pun
More art and porn
Art and craft
2013 in review
Dogbert’s idiom blend
amaze
last/past
Comic portmanteau
Resolutions
Congressional abs
Two cartoons
A recent birthday
Early writing in the comics
Linguistics in the comics
Very brief mention: exomoon
A link: Jewish surnames
Banana candle
Pronouns
-ify rolls on
-gate news
More miniatures
Another Peanuts
dive bar?
Knock knock
New Yorker cartoons
Linguistic drones
grain-free
Poetoon
Superhero comic tropes
Honoring Walt Wolfram
Reading PA
Academic purity
-ify again
Male miscellany
Pepper pot
Who Made That?
Today’s celebrations
Four cartoons
Peanuts alliteration
Pullum on the passive
On the dangler watch
London Underground
“I’m fine”
Friday cartoons
Research
Plant phallicity
More “How are you?”
Cannibal rats
Word counts
Jargon time
Cartoon etymology
Band names in the
Rising pitch
Homophonophobia
Orthographic pun
Postings on comics
Average
Flag food
Fun Is Bowling
xkcd vocabulary
Whale oil
Captions
Penguin New Year
Superhero dining
by the each
Canine portmanteaus
Graphic novels and books
Lunar New Year design
Gemstones
Genres, forms, functions
Family Circuses
The comments spam report
Days
Confetti
paraprosdokian
Today’s linguistic pun
hash
Wednesday pun
hoe
Hybrids and portmanteaus
The Pope and Doctor Who
Zippy nonsense
God’s Grammar Cactus
Joke time
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/02/08/apostrophe-time/ header changed to Comma Time
Mammoths and flowers
doge
Bibliobimbo
callistemon
Putin on the Ritz
Taboo avoidance in the NYT (once again)
Pun to start the week
flamenco
Messing with my mind
Metatext in the comics
Pig fails again
Odds and ends 2/13/14
Morning names
Frivolity for Valentine’s
Chuck Fillmore
One more V-Day posting
More deaths
Allusive pun
Slang change
Yet another pun
Subtext
bitchtits
Zakuski
Two Sunday cartoons
Today’s holiday
Another word avalanche
Embedded PP
Women’s comics
Caption exercise
Another allusive pun
Sociocultural allusions
Two Pearls
Yet another pun
Cultural allusions in the comics
Playful -ify
Guessing at meaning
Formatting
More Recency Illusion
Two Peanuts
Party on, Darth
Two Wednesday cartoons
Women in comics
Two compounds
Remarkable whom
Less captions
Swamp Thing
Calvin faces grammatical gender
Constraining communication
The comics in the rural South
The power of children’s literature
Minimumble
The Monday morning pun
Framing the message
The classic owl joke
wicked, insane, crazy
Eleganza
Man plus horse
Commit to the bit
Another cultural allusion
This week’s great typo
Faint damns, faint praises
More cultural allusions
The news for penguins
Three cartoons for Saturday
Another silly pun
Metatext in the comics (conference version)
Signage error (or not)
Comments puzzle
Burger semiotics
funny
Another from Jane
Spelling confusion
More Dingburger bar bat
63N: The early days
Three for Thursday
Today’s hunk
Metatext handout
Three for Pi Day
63N: Six sets of thematic examples
Labeling
63N: narrative structure
Our forgetful academics
A sweep of five
Another crop of cartoons
The lure of trochaic tetrameter
Annals of spam comments
Three more
Swear words
Sign joke
Original pronunciation
Another from Jane
Another three for the weekend
Mountain Man Linguistics
hentai
Sunday melange
Multiple puns
My Hobby Comics
Breakfast around the world
Keeping secrets
Food names
Two Bizarros and two New Yorkers
A Zippy and a Pearls
A diner and taco sauce
OBH roundup
Pun time
Comics and music
It was the best of sentences …
Bellis perennis
Disappearing bookstores
For John Gumperz
The moth worm
Decline and rise of gay
Hu on base
Jarry at the diner
Triple play
Gapless relatives
The diner and the definite article
Jarry at the diner II
Monday quartet
Profanity in the NYT
Squiggles
April 1
A Zippy portmanteau
On the euphemism watch
mumpsimus
star-of-Bethlehem
glory-of-the-snow
proclitics
Dog whistles and more
Two more cartoons
Cock in a sock
Surreal Zippy
Annoying auto-correct
“liking”
Aquapocalypse
Jane Austen with nothing to say
Another Pearls elaborate pun
Cheap pun
Two porn ads
Bird life
Zippy on figures of speech
A little more on dog whistles etc.
Annals of hybridity
snowdrops
Repurposing
Story Structure
Two cartoon puns
Food fraud
Spiders and flies
Pesky capitalization
Guggenheim
Is That Jesus in Your Toast?
Language politics
Degrading the language?
On the lam at Lim’s
Ambiguity for leeches
Blue-eyed grass
Bibliographic query
More Family Circus parodies
More cultural references: Zits
A (B + C)
Finnish stamp surprise
Silly pun
Paper vs. shiny rectangles
Lurid Easter food
Three for today
Startling image for Holy Week
Drew Dernavich
Mandevilla
Cold curried lima beans
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/20/three-for-the-day/ (Easter)
Speech act ambiguity
Easter Anthem
harvestmen
Why is this so hard to process?
The bloody Mary
Eating and nothingness
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/23/todays-cultural-news-annals-of-fame-and-
accomplishment/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/23/a-dilbert-and-a-rhymes/
Krazy Kat
The Church of Cheese
forsythia
Go back, reader, go back
Carl Barks
Mole Vole
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/25/hip/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/25/don-
rosa/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/25/the-poetry-of-green-tea/
Pirate chickens
Communicators
Museum notes
Shared culture
Background knowledge
Two cartoons from yesterday
Zippy on sleep, and more
Dingburg bubbles
jerk-off
A comma, doctor!
The St. Francis
Go with the flow
On the racism watch
peonies
Schadenfreudian slip
Double-take
Is never good for you?
lobbying / bribing
Three more for Friday
Medicinal meter
Balloon dogs and Mr. Met
Tom of Smurfland
Holidays and events
Formulaic: Zippy, OBH
sweet peas
Styles of cheese
For National Cartoonists Day
After Cinco de Mayo
Musical talent decomposed
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/08/allusions-playful-variations-snowclones-
themes-subjects-memes-tropes-genres/
Trademark literary forms
Party of five
Jane Austen speaks again
Mom likes ’em hot, hairy, and hung
Three on Mothers Day
Graphic cookbook and more
On the verge of a collective
Tenses here, tenses there
Linguist in the media
An epicene protest
Four at midweek
Outsiders
Five for Friday
… plus four
Commercial portmanteau
Accents?
Jane on Xmas Eve
Erudite but tailless
Alan Fletcher
Three diverse
You’re Planting That Old Thing?
“illegal”
Piercing
Three more diverse
Doc and Raider
Three for Memorial Day
Two more on Memorial Day?
What happened to the dinosaurs?
Back from Memorial Day
Threesies
Self-awareness and a milestone
What are they?
Anthony Gormley
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/31/the-philosopher-at-the-cinema-and-in-the-
marketplace/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/01/may-june-turnover/
Coping with the new
Word art
Language, religion, same-sex desire
Word art
Briefly noted: two-language pun pairs
Briefly noted: misreading a head
Plant life by public transport
Hallucinations and delusions
In style
Four for the fourth
Briefly noted: decline
Anthony Friedkin
Briefly noted: note from a subculture
Ralph Steadman
Assorted cartoons
Parts of the body: the handout
Getting the message across
goldilocksian
whoa!
Book notice: Visual Language of Comics
Josh Kline
Three blog notes
Architectural notes
DILF days
Noir 1949
Fathers Day Five
Chuck Jones
Lateral flash thong
Rage against the emoticon
MUFFIN SAUSAGES WITH EGGS
Nineveh
On the foodmanteau front
More octothorpe wrangling
More on the emoticon watch
Karenispam
Arne
Title or slogan?
Streamlined Koons
Charles Barsotti
Sunday jottings
Diner postings
Ruthie roundup
Privets
Mustard on AZBlogX
Apostrophes for the season
Rules of conversation
paper cut
queens
Ridiculous analysis
What’s art and what’s not on the High Line
But is it art? More Jeff Koons
But is it art? At MoMA
Anniversaries
Name that product
But is it art? Abstraction
Tumblin’
Ruthie verbs away
Anemone pun
The sporting news
From the Zwicky diaspora
muster
More holidays and anniversaries
Ruthie’s readings
Bunnies run amok
Cartooning at the diner
Jane on correspondents
pentapedal
Japanese knotweed
Godzilla’s Manhattan
Layered portmanteaus
Today’s phallicity find
Coordination just off the mark
dorkage
The animal report
A Sunday quartet
Hybrid dishes and foodmanteaus
Clickbait schemes
Things we doubt Louis XIV envisioned
Elephants
Elaine Stritch
Saturday monster puns
Peter Mendelsund
hash browns, home fries
Jane spends our money
Cartoon ambiguities
David Borchart
On the word analysis patrol
Willy-Nilly
toast
More Zippy playful morphology
POP goes the taxi
Keep on Truckee
Gerhard Marcks
The song sparrow
PEED EVIL
-ese
Thesaurus play
The definite article of fame
Power Dogs
Bring in an expert!
Neon Vegas
named after
Yesterday’s anniversaries
The news for cats
A further Nixonian note
infidel
A Bizarro replay
Tumble Inn, Stan
Briefly noted: an appositive adjective
Life among the artists
Mashup
Geezer talk
Farewell to the trees
Another Page: parodies etc.
Ruthie (mis)interprets
Abs of the week
The mysteries of desire
Austenian humblebragging?
intern
Dubious disavowals?
Annals of community and conversation
haloumi
An orphan initialism
Cowboy Rub
More cheese, and conversion by truncation
temblor
cranking
Ruthie and Joe meet French
Hybrid art
While Robin’s off duty …
Bizarro followup
Ruthie and Joe again
Visual burlesque
anemone
The accent in Polish
Airing out the naughty bits
More Bizarro followup
Geoff Leech
Generalizations
Blowout, sleaze
The ice-bucket challenge
Everything changes after Labor Day
Let’s get Mexican
Jonathan Black
Orcastra
Three from New Scientist
Greg Brown
In memoriam Martha Pigeon
Zubin Mehta violates the CSC
garden pathing
What a difference 30 years makes
SuperSenior
Three Saturday cartoons
Porn parody cartoons
Cantus Arcticus
geosocial
Straight guys in porn
Birthday presents
I never promised you a rose garden
homographs
English only!
floater
LGBT stamp year
More Bizarro parrots
Earworm therapy
Red devil
Commercial playful morphology
Further annals of sexual slang
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/10/fap/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/11/more-
sexual-fapp-plus-shlick/ http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/12/on-the-spam-train/
Visual formats
Zippy at the Alamo
mix media
Not ending with a preposition
Thursday’s misreading
natural person
Sweet rainbow food
Linguistic diversity among the nopalries
Hypothetical indirection
Background knowledge
Coneflowers and Goldfinches
Every year, the same for Orange
How do you spell /fæp/?
to shallow
Mexican independence
Smoke signals
Today’s phallic ad
The uses of etymology
lady parts
Two from The Advocate
Two from Out
Ages
The cock cushion
Hero sandwiches
Bad to the Bone
Ned talk
Puns and their allies
Spam journals, spam conferences
Banned comics
hedgehogs
Roost Lake Trout
Slush Puppies
Two linguistics cartoons
Speaking late
Wichita is falling
Today’s spam publication
Ling wars in Dingburg
Our playful scientists
Pests on the march
Facebook vs. texting
Saying but disavowing
Action Item, Professional Superhero
Answering a question with a question
Word geographies
Female archetypes in the movies
Morphology Friday 1: the portmanteau unicar
Morphology Friday 2: back-formed freedom-fight
Morphology Friday 3: the verbing screen-shot
Homage to Marky / Mark
Bromantics: Pine and Quinto, Kirk and Spock
Recent changes in Pages
More television hunks: NCIS: Los Angeles
A dogmanteau
Turnip cake
On the portmanteau beat
Eskimo N goes south
Coffeenyms and reservation names
Penguin Book cartoon
Little Zippy and Gabby Goose
veeblefetzer
Death to the non-standard
Plato — or Woody Woodpecker?
Two for Thursday
Once more on background knowledge in the comics
Name that dress code
The language of sex and sexuality
Strunk & White and Strunk/White
Up with the anus
Flashers abroad
October occasions
The Abdominal Snowman
Clipped musculature
Traps
The 1958 Nash Metropolitan
No atheists in foxholes
No stinkin’ budgies
Choosing your words
On the conlang patrol
Hidden symbols
Dictionary Day
Extinction
Plug anal géant on the Place Vendôme
No word for it: ‘erectioned’
X bar
Quarantine
Tove Jansson tomorrow
Animals on duty
A youth hostile?
Abbott and Costello’s band
Erson of Pinterest
What was that word?
Green Eggs and Ham
Miss Florence and the Paleo Diet
Cultural commentary
The plural of Miss Subways
Familiarity
Today’s outrageous pun
Mel Blanc
The experts speak
Advances in telephony
On the orphan initialism front
Giving offense, or the Right to Trample
doxxing
Putrid in context
Drunk on words, and a lot of whiskey
Madison Bumgarner
Cartoonists at language play
Ruthie’s classic
Mammoth silliness
feuilletonist?
Impostor Syndrome
Communication among white-footed sportive lemurs
Hipster chronicles
In praise of The Economist
WHISK(E)Y
Mad Bum
Linguistic diversity on the tube
Sacred Harp by Cantus
Rockroses
A Xmas penguin, and Jane Austen
Multiverse pun
Yesterday’s word for the day
The news for penguins
Name that mammoth
Family, language, and food in the New Yorker
Verbing the bumpkin
Bell’s palsy
Language nerd
Adverb and Adverbial
Holiday Xposting
Saturday trio
Variations on a theme, with grapes
Happy birthday, Alain Delon
The Indianapolis Academy of the French Accent
Word errors
Monday quartet
I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Sweetgum
Calendar boys
Paper vs. screens: handwriting
Trademark annals
Two-fisted, bruised-knuckle science
bigger
A ride on the Reading Railroad
xkcd cartoons
higher
What they say in public in their own language to their own people
It happens
Crossword puzzle words
Name aversion
No cultural clichés!
widows and widowers
Paralellism watch
The Beastmaster
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/19/leslie-feinberg-back-formation-and-pronouns/ Leslie Feinberg, verbing, and pronouns
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/19/18787/ Taking offense: three stories
States I’ve visited
Muzio Clementi
Lives well lived
Musical mishearing
housedress
Triumphalist bad taste
On to St. Nicholas and Xmas
black, Black, etc.
Admissions
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/23/huffing-and-puffing-over-the-man-booker-
prize/
Ciao, Carpaccio!
Pumpkin spice days
Phallic art
fairy X
I hurt myself today
Ask AMZ
Two cartoons and a parody
Pat Suppes
Annals of etymythology: to pass for
Fairy bread
Thanksgiving crunch
Big D
Ask AMZ: two queries
More Black Friday etymythology
Taking it Black
Krampus 2 – 4
Rioting
Naming, in perpetuity
“We do not contracept”
Rainbow rice
Rain and the seasons
Getting it all wrong
Permanent
“just happy to see me”
Clifford Baker
Don’t go changin’!
Word play, some of it uncomfortable
Name news
Carbon dating
Press release modesty
Emmon Bach
Jeff Goldblum
Hanukkah play
Quirky Berkeley lexicography
Seasons Greetings
The Curse of Knowledge
Fur tree
Phonological analogy
Inversion
The Foster Farms Bowl
Rhyme time at Zippy’s
Names for kids
Tricks of memory
Scientific language play
Bizarro word play
Cartoon continuations
Who-liday specials
Advent, Hanukkah, Christmas
The giver of names
For short
Kicked in the mascot
Verbing awry
High Attachment in the political news
Ratface
Feuilleton: craplet
California peppertree
A perching penguin for Xmas
Small moon
Idioms
Pornstars for Xmas
Reality-based?
The portal
fagoot
Santa Claus’s helpers
Deep ignorance
loitering
A painter of light and water
Lapkins
Peter and the Wolf
Telezippic communication
Transitory art
Holiday books
Ice cream museum
The dark side of Xmas songs
The construction of truth
Rainbow Xmas
Audio-lingual meatballs
Frazzbiguity
The Zip-man
Ambiguous sign
Calvin on art criticism
Fabulous creatures on television
IPrC 14: My Hobby
Cartooning: the early days
Implied text
Annals of euphemism
Snowy lanes
Chatty girls (again)
Winter greenery
Portulacas
NomConjObj from Jack Straw, in writing
Peoplification at the NYT
Metatext in the comics
Another linguistics dream, sort of
Xmas Veggie Hunk
Xmas Eve
mirlitons
Lusamerica Fish
Another pornstar for Xmas
Winter POP
Prejudicial -ist
Snowtopia
Amahl
A Christmas Story (1983)
Zippy Eve
The lure of the Internet
The Messiah
Ceviche Campechano
Illegal tipping in Maine
The Xmas run
Crick in the neck
Set of three
The curious morphology of Canada
Santa jack
The metaphorical knife
Fictobiography
Distant punning
Name that hero!
Starving artist
Seafood
Snowtoons
Missing man
potpie
presentee
Tall guys
Mastering a style
Verbing the Second Amendment
No problem
emoji
Driving your penguin into the new year
Penguin postings
Collage postings
Giving signals
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu ändern ist
New Year’s specials
Miss Portland
Centres
Conjugal visit
noseblind
so few of a words
Bad behavior on the net
Chopsticks
Lexeme confusion
Pun pun
Headline stuff
Dingburg noir
Scoping
Outrageous, contagious, whatever
On the bunion watch
Mort Gerberg
Masculinity in court
Penguin chill
Surrender to autocorrect
-ee
Advice from Weenie Beenie
Proleptic toast
Weak heel
Subjectless purpose adjunct
manspreading
Annals of slash: dan mai
Bobby Cannavale
Silliness from the APS
Happy Chef
Tennis elbow
pallbearer
More homoerotic magic realism
Variation in AAVE
Perilla and company
Zippy in two moods
Bernard Perlin
Paddington Bear
Male sex work
batricide
The noirwhal
Façade
The French pastry revolution
rappers
Shed your inhibitions
Lexicographer, unchained
Taboo time in Paris
Norms
Indian
Robert Deyber
Gio Black Peter
Tomi Ungerer
Employee qualities
The three million mark
diabetic X
Whore-igami
The creatures of Fibonacci
Dangler time
The racy ATM
“Has no name in Creole”
Gendered playthings
Anonymously on the internet
Uneasy anaphora
magnolias
cartoonosity
Once -tastic, now -astic
Food photography
Theme music
Ruthie and the gargoyle
One more from Jane
Antonio Soler and the Mournful Valley
Know your penguins
Stanford news: Jane Shaw and Sarah Ogilvie
Stanford news: the Sunday NYT
More theme music
Rainbow crudités
Said … Heard
Catchphrases
Calvin’s genre competence
Unintended ambiguity
Rainbow postings
Shark!
Cheeses
Bizarro’s 30th
What would you do?
Finding Jesus
Exemplary twink
savarin
LGBT at the Smithsonian
Captain Rehab
The general store
Academic freedom
Snidely Whiplash
Sol LeWitt
Zippy’s in Kansas anymore
A syntactic blend
Comfits
Another cross-comic allusion
Doing the fandango, from Venango to Ilopango
Moving day
Type names and individual names
Bizarro evolution
Popeye, Bluto, and Danny Shanahan
Back-to-back American holidays
Chuck Tingle
Quiz questions
Multiverse denialism
Artistic freedom
V vs. N
Three morning names
Sunday NomConjObj
Hybrids
Signs of spring
shawarma II
Anti-vaxxer Family Circus
Carbs, not crabs
Groundhog consequences
McCosh on NomPred
Two more morning names
Data on xkcd
Another kind of nose job
A dangler in Belfast?
Quotative moments
Emmerich Kálmán in wartime
Captioned bookends
Captioned bookend 1
Duane Michals
“Hash Brown Built-In”
Flightless no more
Snowed in
Technically
More word confusion
Two from BZ
Two more morning names
This week’s bizarre sex act
Journalists and their names
Danny Pino
Too much whelm
Hunky mysteries of identity
Name that stuff!
A forest of symbols in a time of love
Two Zippys
Valentine moose-knuckle
Morning name: calabash
Ruthie strikes again
Words for smells
The Ides of February
Veins are the new abs
Saint Phalle phallic philately
Morning name: Dana Delany
Auto parts
The Year of the yáng
Bird seed
Morning names: Alan Ayckbourn, Teddy Ruxpin
The penguin of happiness
Child’s play
The Zippyclone again
Rowling’s ESOC
Tech talk
Morning name: a playful portmanteau
lost
Emulate the penguin
gormless
From the Oscar watch
Ode to Almond Joy
Cops and DAs
fraug
Smell vocabulary
Return of the word avalanche
The thieving sap spitter
Comic conventions
Shipping and the Johnlock files
Antisocial
Color and advertising your preferences
Briefly noted: a misreading
Poets in Their Youth
Books: cartoon/comic classics
Local pronunciations
Gormenghast, the name
abduction
St. David’s Day
Inflamed tendon
Learning to tell jokes
Since 1895
Peter Sarsgaard, Harold in Italy
News for penguins: the ice age
NGD ’15
Joshua Fishman 1926-2015
Morning names: two literary women
Hunks of CSI: NY
critique your dick pic
Surreal plus
Cartoonization
Ambiguity, ambiguity
Gender equity
Meta-talk
miss not
eunuchs
Reynaldo Hahn
Failure of parallelism
The name is Pondicherry
Cartoonists
Three cartoons
Bromancing the Bone
cruffin
Ed Koren
Morning name: salsify (with Swiss chard as a bonus)
More on the sports interview
Reading new names
PT
The bookish cartoonist
A note on morning names
More cartoonization
Dance time
Magritte goes on
to frog-march
Sweet Briar’s demise
The Spirit of Geometry
Morning name: Archuleta
Notes on malnegation
Diner at the summit
Today’s artistic pun
leg-jiggling
Terry Pratchett
Two more mornings
From cute to creepy
Miss Peach
Hawaii Five-0 hunks
The fog of memory
The Pides of March
Morning name: bilharzia
Keister Island
xkcd on science and math
On the PIE watch: headline news
On the PIE watch: in the New York Times
For St. Patrick’s Day
Knob in a red top
Political correctness run amuck, or amok, or whatever
The speaker is (almost) always topical
Back to edible penises
whom from long ago
Briefly: Michael Gazzaniga
cumin
Signifying
Ethelbert Nevin
to glowstick
Speed of speech, speed of thought
to Birkenstock
Chaitins
Wiscahnsin
Lab mix
The perils of [sic]
Morning names: Confrey, comfrey
Purses on the runway
More male dancers
The end of March
Elise Partridge
Where do you get your facts?
UberPenguins
Detweiler?
Construction toys
NEG + because
Another acceptable dangler
A Christian nation
God’s law and man’s law
Marine mammals
The cat at the vet’s
Names for plumed creatures, mythical and real
Reuben and Rachel
Name those spiders
Hillary’s emoji
John Bell
literally literally
na na na
This is not a Ding Dong
Morning names: three ballplayers
Boobies
Judi Dench (and Vin Diesel)
Still more news for penises
Jacob Lawrence
More plurals in compounds
Two, nocturnal and dactylic
Movies and tv: Doug McClure
Movies and tv: Cannonball Run II
Movies and tv: ethnic versatility (Savalas)
Movies and tv: ethnic versatility (Shalhoub)
Pangolins part 2
Movies and tv: Troy McClure, Troy Donahue, Robert Conrad
At the diner in Prosaic
Sidestepping the taboo item
Truncation notes
toodle
Lamb ham and the seder plate
More na na na
Sluts
Morning: Cybill Shepherd
The element of confusion
Language in the New Yorker
Lake Cachuma
Big and Small
The voice of KITT
Andrew Porter
At the movies: Julie Andrews
Dirk Caber
snit
Specialists in International
Edelweiss
Mansplaining in the comics
High Attachment in the NYT
Allusion in The Economist
Vegan diners and gay opponents
More pairings on AZBlogX
Stan Freberg
This week’s remarkable photo
The hotel con
More mansplaining
Hurt corporate feelings
Malaphors, aka idiom blends
No WTF
The power of foul language
day / they
gummi
Today’s POP
Whose quote?
No vowels
Ambling though television
Briefly: initial-based crime dramas
Two obits
The devouring penguin
Spring Sonata
Sunday Pun
Becoming a surrealistic cartoonist
Drag mashups
Morning: Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
James Garner
AZBlogX: big dick twink
A nightmare creature
Allusion
Magnum
-ity and -ness
The panda shirt
A personal poemorse
Morning: C. elegans
More quantum cat
Jolly lemurs
Facework in gay porn
The sandwich issue
The Big Kowalski
Annals of (possible) libfixes: -abelia
Annals of phallic reference: a real fireman’s nozzle
Morning: Gary Owens, and other entertainment Gar(r)ys
Sevens
Amazing prediction
Artificial elephants and X Must Die! movies
Anglicizing German
Morning: Rob Ford
Word entertainment
More Freaks
Note: ethnic names
Laughter and forgetting
On the double entendre watch
The swim-up bar
Doris Roberts
Jim Dultz
Political cartoons
Rocky Road
A notable headline
Verbatim letter
Mind the Gap
Alternatives
Poem for hot February day
Dinosaur connoisseur
Conversation with the Muffman
The mammoth genome
“Cosseted like rare orchids”
Youthful enthusiasms
Cluster Fucked
shtum
Underground Mastodon
Morning: Conrad Ecklie
Apologetic candy
Morning: Great American Dream Machine
More detection
A playful poetic footnote
Elsa Lanchester
Armenian days
A blogging puzzle
Grimmy rides with Snoopy
Unconventional lives
Bizarro symbols
Morning: Jerry van Amerongen
A sense of place
Ignaz Pleyel
It never ends
Feuilleton: red-flannel hash
Feuilleton: Simon & Simon
Feuilleton: Allan Kayser
Define marriage
A collocation
Invention
Feuilleton: Tim Reid
Libfix postings
Point of view
On the pleonasm watch
Annals of idiomaticity
shag
From disaster to great spectacle
Feuilleton: government by nearest in Baltimore
Morning with the Fosdicks
fellow sisters
More naked calendars
Good and evil: Star Jasmine
The names of birds
Bad date
Roly(-)Polies
Service animals
In brief: the name of a new dinosaur
Briefly: Oliver Sacks and sexuality
Mexico in cartoons
Deserved drowning
The distraction of ambiguity
Academic disciplines in competition
Morning name: Simon Rattle
Return to Norms
“The most famous beaver of the 17th century”
Science and myth
More on Oliver Sacks
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But are they cartoons?
L’eggo my Eggo!
The sexy Snapchat converter
In brief: vaguebooking
Four from Jane
Flavor combos
Hatch NM
Symbolic Bizarro
New inventories
Side effects
New names for old
Keith Jarrett
Confessions of a Comma Queen
Like a rock
Morning tune
Anaphora “into” the word French
Author, author!
Drawing and caption
Shirley Jackson
Morning Olives
Gendermanteaus
Administrative thrashing in France
The comments section
Judge Judy: the early days
blond(e)
Morning: Steve Burton Richter
Questionnaire issues again
Androids on the march
Devious undermining
Words to eliminate
An attachment problem
Light in the loafers
Today’s dangler
A ring-tailed lemur type
Two books
Attachment postings
Dangler postings
Illusions postings
A chiastic riddle
Lists lists lists
On the way to the Emerald City
Adj + N + N
restituted
Don’t shade your eyes
Reading out loud
Jury of English majors
so (that)
Ten-foot …
Intervention
Fig time
Morning harmony
Inspirational words
Conjunction or preposition?
The literalist
A panderthon
Or what?
That time again
California’s iconic food
But wait!
Cavemen at the dawn of writing
The New Yorker on subsectivity
The giant glass slipper
More California food
Witch’s cat in the morning
Sideways denial
Briefly: Language reform
Charles Blow’s non-parallelism
Two political cartoonists
Bill Watterson
Portmanteau pop music
Why are they pets?
The abs/junk buddies
New Pages
-(a)ganza
Take the train!
A California breakfast
Odds and ends 5/26/15
Great beauties and unconventional lives
Association by bracketing
Sources and saucers
Double anaphoric difficulties
Anaphoric islands
Faith vs. WF
Narcissyphus
Anne Meara
More new Pages
http://arnoldzwicky.org/the-language-of-comics/graphic-x/
Naming that company
Three New Yorker graphic Xists
Rubber trees, rubber plants
The stories of our lives
Pun in the field
Another round with Schlitzie
Insult for fun
Kids these days
Faith vs. WF in the magazine world
Earworms, snowmen, and parodies
Recursive giraffe
A phonologist’s cartoon
Shifty Grades of Fey
Ruthie and large-scale formulas
Sam Waterston
Morning name: Pyrex
Graphic autobiography: Harvey Pekar
What a difference 30 years makes: take 2
Hubert’s
This week’s diathesis alternation
coriander/cilantro
Cilantro, same-sex marriage, and Yoda
The LHC
Allergies
The Diamond Sweat Short, with caption
Morning name: Elagabalus
culantro
The Counts Perovski
The hunted 95 per cent?
A truncated idiom
Precluded
Maiden near heroine epidemic
The nuptial trough
Ruthie vs. abbreviated French
Zippy’s character actor
Academic friends
Talking wine
Seasons by de Chazal
Join in their penguin games
Mishearing postings
Mishearings
paracuses?
Guys in Heat
Annals of advertising: patriotism, sex, and overwhelming mouthfuls of food
Nook and Crannich
Monster on the Internet
Cute-sounding ailments
Butch Dykeman, Toni Gay, and a moral panic
Identities
Hunkville
Prairie cat
Do I Sound Gay?
Do I Sound Gay? The poster
Get ready for an ambush…
Alternative to the dance belt
One more monstrous food item
http://arnoldzwicky.org/lists/underwear-postings/
Language and the body
http://arnoldzwicky.org/lists/shirtless-postings/
New Lists
Morning: Vic Hitler (and Terry Kiser)
Easy verbings
Language of sex
Diacritic midges
Obscenicons
Obscenicon postings
Index of AZBlog
Ant-Man
Index of AZBlogX
Barbara Babcock (and Jerry Orbach)
Zip the Pinhead
Russian-olive
Rivera in Detroit
June’s L&G news
Movies and tv: Michael Gross
David Hockney
Wrapped for June
Joseph Cross
Two linguistic comics
The Haddockian argot, and licorice
Briefly: a technical term
Food postings
Briefly: cutnpaste
From manure du jour to the Ascent of Man
A thousand likes
Briefly: Reporting enormity
Screaming for ice cream
-valanche
caused traffic to snarl, as well as some injuries and accidents
It’s not hoarding
Morning Zorn
My hard-on belongs to Daddy
Movies and tv: Ian Anthony Dale
King Copper
Thought balloons
Journalistic conventions
Morning name: La Bayadère
It just got bigger
Briefly: A misreading
Briefly: bizarro word play
Hecho en México
A query on comic conventions
Editorial pun
nutmeg, the verb
Aspects at 50
Annals of advertising and poor taste
The news for penises, including accidental ones
Two for Thursday
Happy Ending
At the movies for Pride
Very briefly: Clementa Pinckney
Gay Pride
Undermining marriage
Clickbait
The news for penises, Norwegian edition
“part of who we are”
In the monstrous food sweepstakes
Claude Funston thought …
An ebook
Auditioning to be Zippy
Equality Without Exception (sort of)
shippo
Jeffrey Brown
Milo Ventimiglia
The Crannich chronicles
Hawaii’s iconic food
That goes without
The return of Lazlo?
the old college try
Declaring your race
Dressing for Independence
The stray bar
Briefly: a catamitic misreading
Initialisms, raunchy and not
http://arnoldzwicky.org/abbreviation-postings/
Pecs, abs, and dancing
More gratuitous shirtlessness
NYRB GbN
Laila Robins
Embrace of the televised penis
Shark statues
LFL
Shirtless body types
Herrera / Silvestre
Want to be an actor?
I Can’t Even
Surprise!
Serving the penis
Zippy in Holyoke
AZBlogX: offers of the body
It’s the glue, Ruthie
Calvin and books
Morning names: booklouse
rived
Crediting inventiveness
Where is Ojai?
Homing lizards
y/y?
Disruptive conversation
birch beer
Juan Rulfo
Paul Chapin
Twyla Tharp, truncation, and more
Which witch?
Dysfunction
Morning name: Madame von Meck
Feminist pirates and their chanteys
More on sounding gay
Light before heavy
Marriage, rights, and cake
claustrophilia
Librarians and light bulbs
Morning name revisited: Archuleta
Morning name: the Kuder Interest Inventory
Outrageous art
Waterside trio
Ominous questions
Fletcher and a trail of associations
Acting news, Welsh news, gay news, Jewish news, real-estate news
findependence
piadini
Soothing boxes: or the pleasures of corrugation
out way
Pernicious nostalgia (with John Stamos)
Jeri Ryan and Luke Perry and more
Define slavery
The Far North
Dead Tongues
Morning names: The Secret of Susanna, The Jewels of the Madonna
Cymbalism
Zippy and the Icon at the Bluebonnet
More art criticism from Calvin
Sitcom watch: John Larroquette
trophallaxis
Television watch: David James Elliott
Zippy’s diary
Double standard
“beat a urine”
Mirror image
The Importance of Being Incomprehensible
Morning names: Vibrafoam, Vibram
Protecting fictional brand names
Sitcom watch: Ted Danson
Briefly: Word retrieval errors based on semantics
Geoffrey Nauffts
30 twats in a field
Television watch: Erik Palladino
Setting up a pun
Couple words
The Acting Corps
complimentary
Mark Feuerstein
Scott Bakula
Confounded memory
An appellmanteau
Two Bakular notes
Disentangling names
Digitally disseminated folklore
Great years in film
Coleus Jade
The unflappable waitress
Breakfast at the Gamble
The offensive t-shirt
A new Page
allayed
Three on the prowl
Three on the prowl
Morning names: naked mole rat, Penn Palestra
A dash of ornamental hunkiness
Ken Krimstein
Failure to reach proverbial status
Name rhymes
Shirtless shark-fighting teens
Dave Blazek
Associative thinking
Kongtoon
Land of 1,000 Dances
Bacteriological picture books
Misleadingly named animals
Primate testicle size
Going on in Antwerp
Data postings
What’s wrong with this verb?
Raced and gendered (and classed)
Name play in the comics
Morning name: rajas
A military-industrial complex
Going for High Attachment
PSP synthetic compounds
Dingburg names
Matters poblano
Bizarro devolution
“a fun roof in Gent”
Another breakfast at the Gamble
Semantic specialization and extension
Clown time
Search for the magic slogan
Danny John-Jules
Annals of fast-food excess
Popsicles for dinner
Gary Carr
Jewtoons
Self-identification
green … egg … (ham)
cheesy pickup line
Briefly: an excellent portmanteau
Childhood memories
Culinary Loc + V back-formed Vs
Language cartoon Wednesday
Coordinate initialisms
Trump’s incoherence?
The spread of popular culture
Briefly noted: adopped
Morning name: Hilarion
On the Basque detail
Phallicity watch: the mushrooms
Diner aesthetics
Morning name: Culebra
Two in bloom
In the Basque diaspora
A hypothetical question?
data
Food names, and plant names too
Pizza that doesn’t exist
So…?
Found poetry
The Monthly Underwear Club
Tearooms and their features
Ice cream, roadside fiberglass, Caillebotte, and more
Morning name: elephantoplasty
Briefly: ‘ware frog!
Three blues and a yellow
Morning name: Herbert Huncke
Annals of phallicity: the hardness score
Crab feast
Stickwork
Len Cariou
Dance and the male body
Morning: mandolin, mandoline
Mant!
A story of patient endurance
Adjs in 2pbfVs
“Willow Weep for Me”
Donood Twump
Stachys
The 4 million
Back to San Marzano
Penstemon
Plant families
Cotoneaster
The linguistics of temperature
Braldt Bralds
More plant families
Bizarro: use and mention
Seedy invasives
Annals of cultural diversity: B&H Dairy
Kraken! And GEICO!
Falling trees
Fidel of the Castro
At the fair
All things shark
What a hoot!
Morning name: adipocere
going better with
Nothing says A like B
Vining invasives
Warnings on the label
Jeremy drops an F-bomb
Briefly: HA in the commercials
Two medicinal plants
On the fashion front
Antacid or online tv?
To exist
Robots up the wazoo
Return to the crab feast
Gerbera and other daisy-oid flowers
Freaks, then and now
Mighty Mouse
Cow parsnip
Two useful terms
African daisies
Eat your weeds
Giving two hoots
Scientists at play
Flaunting it
TV series circuit party animals
Flintstone days
Rhett to Scarlett
Continuation errors
Two from xkcd
Cotinus and the cousins of Cotinus
Two more plant families
Birthday flowers
Three morning names
Roberto Bolle
Returning to your roots
The power of shorts
Shooting stars, hydrangeas, and lemongrass
Go for the nuts!
Marxuse
Latvianity
More vining invasives
Plant family backlog
Let’s twist again
Cochinita pibil
Golden yellow for the end of summer
Briefly: sources?
Briefly: circular word-formation
Cartoon adventures in lexical semantics
A sad editing moment at the New York Times
Chaste trees and jumping spiders
Caring
Ten language-y comics
Stage names for dogs
Alex Minsky and his underwear
Superpatriot hot dogs
The speech of signs
Dennis Greene
Substance massification on the golf course
Zombie X
The steely cruise of the Voltron Blaster
Briefly: two borderline AZ attributions
Breadsticks
Muffins
Betty Boop
Boop 2
Morning name: succinic acid
Back to Bayadère
The Hairdresser Illuminati
The angle of your erection
Participles of immediacy
Amber 2
Learning stuff
Mark Mason, Matt Bauer, and Gay Porn Minus Gay Sex
Another medieval penis monster
Two notes from the obits
Ruthie vs. N + N compounds
Monkey puzzle tree
Boy in the sand
Morning: bruxism, brucellosis
Context context context; and variation
Two notes on Wondermark
The power of naming
One space or two?
California squirrels
Speaking with the (dead) animals
Vicious wombats
Two memorable actors
On display
Morning Name: Ritual Fire Dance
Leberkäs(e)
Morning name: Dudelsack / doodlesack
Philip Bonneau
Another bagpiper
Muhly grass
Roselle
Grilled
lubbers
Signage
Stark morning names
The very model of a mammoth from Michigan
JockMan Admires MooseBriefBoy
Fan-guistics
Sexual advance?
Earworm time: Springtime for Hitler
Yogi-isms
(the) Batman
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Routine and sub-routine
Non-parallel gaps in Jackson Hole
headband
Jane J. Robinson
More Saint Arnold
Two recurrent themes
Adventures in Arnoldia
Tawkin’ the tawk
Taking the third
Rocky Horror at 40
Genericization
tri-state (and quad-state)
Two New Yorker cartoons
Party in the back / rear
/http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/10/annals-of-phallicity-nozzles-and-glycerin-lubes-and-posing-oils/
Morning: A Long Slow Drag
Walsh plays with formulaic and conventionalized language
The Exotic of the North Country
Pavlov’s cat
From the 80s
You must remember this
Our playful artists
Morning: the call of nature
Numb3rs and a soap-opera-handsome hunk
Yoda on active and passive clauses
Morning name: Gluyas Williams
Morning: The Cockettes
Angles and curves
Lassie to the rescue
Morning name: Carla Ventresca
Dark loamy POP
Lightning strike
At the Bison Bar
Meatless and brainless
Pasta fazool
That’s a moray
Autumn, Halloween, and Death
Comic superheroes of the Wild West
Mornings and mangelwurzels
Morning: monotreme, marsupial
Rafe on display
Going to the dogs
Shirtless Mondays
XBlog essays
The ear wash
Adrian Tomine
Words of One Syllable Dept.
Bread play
From Shirtless Monday: Seann William Scott
Depilation Row
Automating clickbait
Airport penguin
LSA award: Arika Okrent
Morning toe jam
Morning silverfish
A regrettable food name
Terminology: snowclonelet
Sunday penis notes: #1 the morning moose-knuckle
Sunday penis notes: #2 the news for penises
Sunday penis notes: #3 phallic food
R(e)ubenesque
“says”
Flintstone and Foamstone
A quandary
Pop-Tart blasphemy
Wednesday news for penguins
Wednesday news for penises
To the liquor of your laughter / And the lacquer of your limbs
Lame taboo avoidance
peanut(s), penis, and Cracker Jack
French laundry, Hostess products, and incoherent ramblings
National Candy Corn Day
The Great Pumpkin
Rosamunde
X snob
What you can do with an advanced degree in the humanities
The Halloween sale
The morning after
Follow-up: Heino
mussels
Monkey Puzzle Trio
David Hammons
The New Yorker food issue
Breasts and bras
Minstrelsy
Briefly noted: a bullshit lexicon
Bullshido, bullshtein, and cork soakers
On the who/whom front, and AZ terminology
Le mot juste
Born out of breadlock
Diversity officer
Moving pest news
Pastiche
On the cellblock, in the dugout, at an ambush
crap(s) game
Dick Tracy visits Mother Goose
cowboy up!
Clean underwear
Adventures in food: vintage Betty Crocker, fun with hot dogs
ExtenZe
Bizarro etymology
PUMP! Boys and Trojans
Movies and tv: Matthew Gray Gubler
George Crumb
fancy bottoms
Run it up the flagpole
The water frog, the ground squirrel, and the little thrush
The story of Noodles Crumplewaste, Any-Size Woodtank, and Index Icecup
In the miniature world
Dance: Friedemann Vogel
Annals of miniaturization: Fantastic Voyage
Movies and tv: Grimm
cold cuts
A Ben Carson note
The art of interjection
Address terms in service encounters
cioppino, sopa de mariscos
Prefix + FN
Annals of zeugma
Octavio Pinto
fish food, fish flakes
Title generator, Pavlov
Les Danseurs
Male friendships
Novelty ties
Alaskan-cod-pieces
The House of the Writhing Pun
The news for penises: omnibus edition
Fischli & Weiss
Somewhere, looking like Bozo
How can we help, caller?
Rushing Sugar
Four from the New Yorker
In brief: phonological words
Foodnited States
Crunch Berries time
stat!
Rainbow bedding
soggen
Zipparchitecture
Kijé and Jimson
big game
Luis Valdez
Self-awareness
Penises, poppers, and piercings, oh my!
Using an ethnic slur
Nugenix
motion-goal BE
On the campaign trail with Vermin Supreme
You’re done
Tinnitus, tinnitus, semper tinnitus
An underwear Thanksgiving
A non-traditional Thanksgiving dessert
stuffing, dressing, filling
Canned cranjellyfish
Zippiedile tears
Pearls POP
Annals of curvature
The revolution in men’s underwear
Bring this upstairs for me
Too early for celebration?
Cartoon Pages
Morning name: penumbra
Like Father, Like Son
I love my Jack Adams
The news for endangered penguins
José Parra
Olneyville New York System
Thomas Gibson
Perplexed
Supernatural-medical in Toronto: three hunks
Morning names: Norfolk Island Pine, ruach
From the New Yorker: good doggie, bonsai lawn maintenance
Eatymology
Homoerotic horror
Tchaikovsky’s Polish Symphony
Gay Porn Portal
A Montalbán Hanukkah
From the gay porn portal
Anderson Cooper as a silver wolverine Animorph
Supermarionation
Piano-Rag-Music / Ragtime
sweet olive
On your day off
A prevalence of left-handers
Top in sheer stockings
Existential Risk
Morning Name: Park Overall
The news for penises: thinner, stronger, and more pleasurable
On the shirtless hunk watch: the Skarsgård Tarzan
The black gangbang fantasy
Barsotti dogs, plus
animated gay werewolf boyfriend movie
BCNÜ
Victoria’s Secret Agent
Dev Hynes
Russian dolls
The strap snap
Sex between straight men: bro-jobs
The secret life of superheroes
Boyfriends
The merry prince
Ruin or architectural masterwork?
Professional muscle hunks
The evolution of nostalgia
Hugh Jackman
The news for cartoons
Go H+A+R+D
manga/anime hair
Jockstrap with a rainbow pouch
mandingo party
Know your eels
Obviously Lumber
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
X queen
Odds and ends 12/20/15
Four from Leigh Rubin
Ocus
Two Dilberts
Calendrical hunks
Bundling and the penile raphe
Unintended
More harnesses
Pockets in his trunks
One more harness
The C1R Christmas sale: Johnny Hazzard
More Damien Crosse
Brendan Fraser
From sadistic she-penguin convicts to wolves invading Britain
Morning name: camellia
Morning: The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
The sounds don’t quite match
Name your florist
Morning name: Kakadu
Darius Ferdynand
Extreme underwear, some in rainbow
Oil paintings in miniature
Musical Star Wars puns
King of comics
tomatillos
boxboys and transitive bottoming
Dick in a Box
Today’s double entendre
Five cartoons for the penultimate day
Zippy’s Eve
Morning name: Baskit
The Crew with packages and boxes
Holiday images
On urinals and the conventions of the men’s room
Two for New Year’s Day
The news for urinals
Testigraphmanteau
New Year’s 2pbfv crop
Misogynistic urinals and sinks
For Sainte Geneviève, who saved Paris from the Huns
Urinating superheroes
The news for penises, issue #1 of 2016
The New Year’s resolution
Wrestling with gay porn
Bilkpoe (and fractured Stein)
Milestones in homoerotic fan fiction
The linguists’ revenge
Bizarro groaner
Ruthie and the radio doctor
Morning name: The Duck Factory
John Holm
Two New Yorker cartoons
Two teases
Some favorite music
More on the Bundy Bunch
Signage models
Iron Man, Captain America, and antique slang
Dance time
Get Sporty
The woolly whale
A visit to Kyrgyzstan
Ahab and the whale
The wages of heteronormativity
Fractured Proust
Fractured Joyce
An eruption of bromanteaus
Head scratcher
Pittman, Dickinson, and Goya
Kike Sorroche, ilustrador homoerótico
Fractured Fitzgerald
Frances Kroll Ring
Yaoi goes to high school
A piece of male art
Penis size in the steam room
The family that fund-raises together
Snowclone to the rescue
Oh, the *Heimlich* maneuver!
Lyrical flight of fancy
Hunting mammoths in the Arctic
Classless but far from sexless
The undercut
Viking Kids
Superheroes: two book series and a movie
The Dingburg Diaries
Silver mammoth
butt/booty, dial/call
Five from Barsotti
From Yoasobi News
The Ascent of Bruce
Tim Lockley and Ods Bodkins
The Elm City Diner
The power of language
Rabble, rouse yourself from this pastoral torpor!
Two Bizarros
The toy poodle
Bizarro cartoons redux
to shape-shift
Fun with EDM
Sara and D’ijon double-team Jeremy
Morning name: John Varvatos
Nilton, the name
Sporty pro
More Ravening
Six months of misreadings
Unblogged mishearings
In the burlesque boat with Zippy
Put the cello to the metal
More Cristiano Ronaldo
Huge News For Men!
Bruce Bruce Bruce
Lower bangs higher
Dean Phoenix, Dirk Yates, and curvature
Yesterday
Three Thursday cartoons
aussieBum, Shearing the Rams, and Slim Dusty
Language and sexuality
P.C. Vey
Freezing eggs?
Raiding the thesaurus
Queen for a King
Toys for Twisted Boys
mariscada
Cruise Jogger
Only YOU
Be like Schwa
A visit with Colby Keller
Notes on male ballet dancers
The prissy voice
be gay/queer for
downe
Some news not for penises
A late Christmas gift
Word exchange/reversal or what?
Valete Bob and Ray
homophobia
The Super Bowl looms
At the noodle bar
The news for, um, monkeys
Mardi Bras (and Boxers)
Morning names: wiles, Wiles
Comic Asexual
Underwear Sex
The news for testicles (and, oh yes, penises)
Sex positions for gay men
Word play for the weekend
Calling shogun
Mandrake
Two books of male photography
numerous of NPdef
Briefly: English spelling and its weirdness
Another entry in the monstrous food sweepstakes
Young gay love
Loving couples
Carl Barks on Easter Island
A passion for pickles
Klingon or Esperanto?
Hoist a pint to the mondegreen
Ben, advertising
The Dog People of Easter Island
Morning name: Colton Ford
The grief of ulnarism
One Big Happy language
Ting-a-ling
Mid-February news for penises
Out-of-context comic panels
The fearful exhibitionist
Who is Alice? What is she?
Getting Go
New Pages
The pronoun strip
Batzarro
Morning names: the two Gracies
Who is Silvia?
Annals of art and design: LC2 in Swiss concrete
Annals of art and design: Vivian Hornick
The dog ate my book
a katakana para
A family thing
A Rhymes word exchange
A new Page, on I vs. me etc.
Saturday news for penguins
Paul Sixta and Marios and more
Georgia Dunn and BCN
Comic consciousness
Briefly: what is a category?
Four mythic hunks
The greater West Coast area
CounterEvolution
News on the sexuality front: the Jocktion Marketplace
Two Z language cartoons
Areas and regions
Briefly: gaysex, mansex
Old recipes V: the dented tin box
Sex positions in action
Ruthie and word division
Trent Atkins, a great bottom
Tinging the scalene triangle
Spinoff: PigSkin underwear
Ruthie and the tricks to aid memory
Cartoon evolution
Xmosexual
Sex in the shadows
Double male proficiency
Jeremy, adulting
Arother carbon dating cartoon
Plastic Fantastic Pinhead
Where?
The miracle of toast
The news for testicles
Ruthie v. idioms
The news for penises: hot dogs for 5, carrots for 2
Male beauty
Three from the New Yorker
Drawings plus text, telling stories, for kids
Boxer in shorts
Independent penguins
Sweet nothings: candy, cereal, advertising
Spoiled children
Mayan comics and alliterative music
Fruit loops
Cowboy POP
Social meanings of clothes
Two very different male body types
Flagging Marcomentum
Ignorance
Unnerving Chicano art: Vincent Valdez
Primary barbeque
When was this place founded?
Morning name: mock-Swedish nonsense
Today’s morning names: Skidelsky, Sidarksky
Your money’s no good here
Boxing
Two Thursday cartoons
Morning name: Botticelli, the game
Morning name: javelina
For St. Patrick’s
Periodic table “Who’s on First?”
Morning name: Roll Over, Beethoven
Late for St. Patrick’s
Perils of: unspacedalllowercase
Han Dynasty again
Sugar bombs
Cheese Barrel Polka
Cheech
Smooth operator
Morning name: catarrh
Bulking up for Thor
Rainbow Peeps
Manganiello. The Huge. The Body-Proud.
Christomanteaus
Annals of naming (and lexical semantics and libfixes)
Annals of dubious commercial names
The dubious commercial names files
Klimt Eastwood
Annals of verbing: to long-press
Play with Obi Wan Kenobi
From the Zwicky diaspora: spinning and trimming in Denver
Orifices for talk
The invasive starling
Morning name: scuppernong
Hillstone Restaurants and the Hillstone Group
The news for penises: a flower garden
The news for penises: a flower garden
Jeepers creepers
More Peepshi
A time to dye
Monsters of vegetative spread: dragon’s teeth
Ken Howard
Casey in a bunny suit
Belchertown
Morning name: bullhorn
Roland Topor
Rendezvous at Zip’s
A hard-working metaphor
From a Maine diner to Southern squirrel stew
Back to Braunschweig
Morning name: domoic acid (plus Dungeness crab)
Anhedonic with Velda
Three for the 30th
A kitten-killing God?
Italian wedding soup
Morning names: Ouachita(s)
Look who’s talking!
Rita M. Weep
Conversation
elefonts
Color scheme
Common names that are also descriptions
Hilary Putnam
The watermelon files
From the groaner annals
Morning names: divertimento, serenade
Ain’t it the truth?
Morning name: Nachlass
Cucumber soap
Tastee days
-ible -able
Zip-O-Rama
Feckless, Gormless, and the bull, Lost Positive
The Ascent of MowerMan
Briefly: more -ible -able
Magnitude boys
On the brocabulary watch: brocialist
Verbing compounds: to turkey-peek, to prairie-dog
POP goes the bargain
Briefly: Rainbow Doritos
Case choice by rhyme; non-standard case systems
nookie
Reciting formulas
Surreal mud in CT
The knitwear news for penises
Ganymede on the fly
Daniel Clowes
The fish are biting
Marian Bush
Another winged man
Meet the Wieners, stampeding in buns
70s Cleaverwear
plate my meal
think of the Xs
Briefly: Hellboy
Some readings on language evolution
Briefly: bloodletting
Ethnic food week
Jon Huertas
New snowclone days
Morning name: ivermectin
Joe Orlando: a cartoonist and his sea-monkeys
More on open secrecy
The news for penises, snickerboy edition
The gigantic metaphor
Meteor Storm
Ed Wynn
Two gay graphic novels
Donelan
Graphic novel: Logicomix
Sex comics: Brad Parker / Ace Moorcock
Dyke comics
William Hamilton
Brew-ha-ha
SMBC 2011
Perry Bible Fellowship
icing
Ding Dong Deli
sg /u/, pl /i/
Sex comics: the kinksters
Bad bro days
Gay comics in the 21st century
Meatmen 1989-2004
oo-(w)ee!
Just remove one letter
The masturbation sleeve
WTF? headline omission
Between the desert and the couch
Mint, Flint, Slate, Brick
The news for (big) penises
Annals of public art
Where is he now?
Raining subjunctives
Lawyers, Gubs and Monkeys
Brief notice: sex comics on AZBlogX
Morning names: thistles!
Wine tartar and Asian tartar
María Sol Escobar
Down on the farm
The weed annals I
Two from AZBlogX
paying for it
Reading the comics
Peter Kuper
More tiki!
binge-bingeing
The weed annals II
Calvinesque humor
The weed annals III
The knotted gun
Art or cartoon?
Shirtlifter
Escorts, rentboys, male hustlers
Butch and Sundance: the photo gallery
The cell phone of 1922
Gentle mockery
Mind-sets
Morning name: nemesia
Annals of advertising: the Slack animals
Jason Phoenix redux
stroke
Two extravagant mani-corns
Ed Fisher across the Atlantic
Brill me tomorrow, Zippy
Pretty in pink: my homo pony
The gang double
Punch in the presence of the passenjare
A fine commercial portmanteau
Monday language comics
Morning name: zygomatic arch
Female parts
Pebbles
Joe Dallesandro
Running towards Pride Month
VPE way over the line
The FUCK card
How long?
Definitions
The White Palace Cafe
Comic-stripped!
Old fashioned Super Duck
Anti-spam architect (plus a mathemagician)
Programmer paintings
Stats
Male art: two views
A slow meme
Urban gardening in Dingburg
On the question of packing peanuts
On the Hi-Lo
Movies and tv: ethnic versatility (Nouri)
Three natives
Ballad of beef
Ambiguity and vagueness
Thurber the illustrator
Gerard Hoffnung
Morning spunk: same word, different word
Graduation Day
Two word-play cartoons
The snail days of summer
On the public art patrol: giant chairs
Male photography: Leo (and Mikele)
Kookie Zippy
The evolution of woman
Memorial pun
Frank Modell
Immoral Day 2016 and gay military porn
The Great Pong
Tiger prawns and garlic noodles
Lili Darvas
Circularity at the dawn of language
Nefarious morning name
An infestation of flies
From late winter
Morning news: death of radio star
Cartoony days
Pioneer in animated cartoons
It was 13 years ago today…
Geek compounds
More sugar bombs
Jeff Hobbs
More participial urgency
A Chomsky caricature
Paleolithic reporting
Still solid, after 20 years
Tom Toro
What the wind says
The literalist on Fathers Day
Another dubious name
You should really look at the text
Referent finding in Zits
More male dancers flying in mid-air
Schmitts Gay Beer
Girl Genius
The entrepreneur gets an honorary degree
Name play in Basingstoke
Rainbows and b8r bait
The news for penises: wrap it in a bagpipe
Most unusual ties
Crate labels
Cross-commercial fertilization
An offer (the first of several)
On the Harvey train
Two Thursday cartoons
Pleasures of patriotic penetration
Anatol Kovarsky
The avocado slicer
At the Head of the Wolf
Another offer (X-rated)
Constructing a Voice of Authority through Persona
Morning name: at Carnival, with a trumpet, in a tricorn
Language at the art galleries
Monday: attention, language stereotypes
A quick sponge-bath
Frank Viva
Frenemones
Two tests in cartoon understanding
The lighthearted rooster
Word times: two Ruthies, three Psychs
Offer offer offer offer
Bob Eckstein
Annals of invective: tweets from Scotland
Leaving, in tears and a portmanteau
Levels of taboo language
Two diverse offers
Offer #10: operas and oratorios
Offer #11: funny stuff
Offers #12 and #13: singing hymns of praise
Instant Brexit porn
The Kinsey strip-tease
Michael DiMotta
Gang of five
Notes on my father
Offer update, plus a new one
Big and cool and tangentially surreal
On the surreal train
CD surprise boxes
Rugrat regrets
Vocal music: two offers
Making plans
Hiphop phrenology
Instrumental music, mostly large-scale
Not the prettiest stallion in the stable
Fireworks, hot dogs, and, yes, gun sales
The 31-room elephant in the room
At the keyboard: offer #20, in seven parts
Conversations in music: offer #21, the last of the CDs
Dress for performance and publicity
The fallen V
The Adventure of the Morning Napoleons
Last call: gay music, mix CDs, X-rated collages
ID
Name that succulent
Celebrations
Annoying instruments
Someone old, someone new
Two cat cartoons
A profusion of fireflies
chimichurri
goober
Word play for 7-11
On the digital media front
Kadir Nelson
Farewells
Bodily alignment
Wolverine eats a weenie
goose bumps
Garden moments
A medal for pronoun case
oiks, yobs, and prats
Zippy on a cross-comic run
Morning name: Colquhoun
To be floral, bearded, and young
More British slurs
A remarkable website
The Insolence and the Ecstasy
DVD offer #1
DVD offers #2 and #3: XXX gay porn
Let’s just call it “grammar”
Lola Albright
guv
The kangaroo’s paw
Michael Crawford
queer
Beginning the day with the sins of the world
The giant lava lamp of Soap Lake
Let’s go paleo
Cute pornstars
Our playful entomologists
George Platt Lynes and Jared French
DVD offers: second announcement, plus a new one
A Ruthian eggcorn
Comicat
Arthur Godfrey and friends
Pronoun case in the Thames Valley CID
Lives of the pornstars: Jeff Quinn
deontic+, deontic-
Naming names: the cocktail beat
Extraction and insertion
Cisco in the morning
Mister Zwicky and Miss Edna
Form and function, working together
Cereal mascots
Cartoon conversations
The dildo days of summer
Taking things literally
Alarming annals of cinematic lexicography
Zippy and the Edsels
Politically prescient G&S
Ziplinguists
Dick Deadeye in the morning
xkcd mansplaining
Fixed expressions
Ianto Jones
Ianto Jones: the shirtless sequel
Wild in the morning
Advances in the fast food world
the Ving N
The old curiosity shelf
Dick’s rhyme
Violet-blue, white, and deep purple
Final DVD offers, #5 and #6
Sit right down
Uplift
Collatz days
Surprising authors and the Conan Doyle effect
Trapped in the morning duff
More number fun
Rainbow toys
Exit BVM, enter elephants and lions
Lance the versatile
News for penises: the Orgy logo
PE6-5000
Gross and flying penguins, Barsotti and flying squirrels
Dress for success
Falcon trading cards: the faces
Morning name: The Right Honourable The Lord Rees-Mogg
News for penises: dick pic advice from Eric André
Balls!
Photo sets
Offersville
The now present and the futurate present
If you wanna be Zippy
Morning eye in the sky
Six doodles
Pink motels, Cadillacs, etc. etc.
A filmic Zwicky from Perth
Meatballs!
Give me some men who are square-jawed men
“What you done, sunshine, is criminal damage”
Jamie Dornan
A compound puzzle
A ewer in the morning
The Fine Art Exemption
More on the David
Q-Neg scope in the comics
Briefly: vice-presidential anagrams
Gorey on evil
Associating with Zippy
Cartoon characters’ self-awareness
Four more Steinbergs
Ya gotta know the territory
November 11th, 2014
More Ruthian re-shaping
Good poetic lines
Linguistics and its orthographically related disciplines
Two impressively eccentric artists
Sylvia Sleigh’s male art
Discourse referents in hypothetical worlds
Iatrogenic grammar sickness
The Penguin of Revenge
Osmunda, Königin des Waldes
Morning in Murfreesboro
Briefly: a chain of misreadings
Annals of public art
Annals of ellipsis
Gorey the illustrator
On foot patrol, part 1
Alphabet soup
Penguin Pride
Skinflints and Accidents
On foot patrol, part 2
Spot the error
Business news from our house
Two OBHs
Holiday specials
Diversity on screen
A Minneapolis fling
How’s that coming?
Spontaneous poetry
Rainbow ads
Birthday times
Waltzing with Boynton bears
How sweet the daphne smells
How dinosaurs are made
Feet in footage, pawns at the pawnshop
Herb Ritts
Julian and Sandy
Name time
Return of the Sam Gross balloon dog
The Mystery Man of Crotch Beach
Breaking bad
The durian
Toucan, get what you need
hinky?
Going all the way gay with the X-Men
Taking the job description literally
Anniversaries
Another curiosity shelf
Horns
Bare bear poets in their youth
News for penises and their simulacra
Countdown to diamond days
Figurative language to the rescue
Muffled
The Antichrist
Hipsters, beats, and raconteurs
jackhole
ambliance
Penguin irises
The old oaken desk
The Gray Lady goes bilingual
Message from a bug
Beefcake on screen
Unfetching cats
A conundrum
A Euro-hunk
Bozo’s ark
Dog savages linguist
Smuggle me budgie down, sport
Barebackula
the Vegas idea
The sculpture garden
Naming his Essence
Film fantasy
Masculine jaws of Wyoming
Briefly noted: ribbed, for her pleasure
Collage days
News for penises: NCOD, Portlandia
Clown and balloon animal, take 4
Annals of public art: bunnies in the lake
Bring in ‘da Boyz, Bring in ‘da Funk
bromosexual
New Yorker bro-toon
Pun days
Grammar nazi on the loose in the library
A children’s book from Walsh
Zippy goes out to catch a bite
Zwicky le Chat
… and his fruit was sweet to my taste
Huzzah!
On the Zwicky art watch: Calder Zwicky
Zwickys of New York: Chuck the mixmaster
Dog massage
Workin’ Blue at the Car Wash
Nick Cave and the Soundsuits
More Zwicky postings
Journalist Fred Zwicky
Triple-play pun
Five sets of gay collages
Là ci darem la mano pianoforte
Tradenaming
Another Spanish lesson
Pingu watches over the gay boys
Two flowering trees in Kyoto
Harvest art
Play with your penguin
SuperCamp penguins
Paisley days
Last of the Collageuins
One more remarkable tie
Naked boys playing at liberty
tail in the air
Kristen Bjorn, doodled
Bring out your lukewarm etymythologies
Idiom blends, with wine and roses
Made for you
Wednesday odds and ends
Two poignant cartoons
Halloween exposure
Emoji days
Montage montage
Domain-relative labeling
Grab It While You Can
Toon animal time
Don’t get me wrong, the sex is great
Two cartoons for month’s end
Annals of verbing (and poetic meter)
Five vegetarian meals
Mad skills
Giantess Jackie
Prose poem
Annals of musical instruments: two 20th-century inventions
Annals of musical instruments: improvised instruments
wishing well
Into the Cave world
Playing with fire
Patio, with plants and penguins
True Confessions Ripped from the Tabloids
If you see something,…
Vases for phallophiles
Wearing the 1970s
November 7th, in the liminal zone
Seward Johnson
Correct it, Joe
Animal instincts
News for animated penises
Perverted tastes
In a penguin suit
A planter for phallophiles
Two Mediterranean plants for wintry days
Eliding the black penis
Gloomy tech days at the NYT
Tubby in Peekskill
Cameron Harvey
Pump it up
Something I missed on NCOD
Lukas is back!
What do men want?
Trisyllabic feet in tetrametrical orgy
The agony of homophobia
Distant compounds: the headgear hair files
But oh, their end, their dreadful end
Placenames of the British Isles
Magnificat
The superb object of his attention
Going extinct there, flourishing here
No cigar
The news for cigars
The Isis files
Apostrophic moments
Montalvo morning
Il gioco di parole è mobile
Gluten log at the Bluebird Diner in Brooklyn
Two negatives make a positive
A near-Zwicky: Zwickey broadheads
The mazel tov cocktail
Two POPs
Briefly: early libfixology
Is it all in the framing?
Blue-Emu
Zwicky annals: David W. Zwicky
You can’t judge a story by its title
Fellatial publicity photos
Two Stanford adventures
Moonlight
Swish Zwicky
Rising in the morning
medium-hater
Face work
The band names of middle age
My tongue broke out in unknown strains
Annals of cartoon understanding
And so it begins
Sperm, sperm, wonderful sperm, and all that jizz
Poet in Search of His Moose
Color-coordinating college
One more SquirtJet item
Morning name: April Dembosky
The audible asterisk
From the stage directions for two holiday musical productions
Silver-bush everlasting
Robert Arneson
Mentally flexible little kids
Helping the kid out
The shop of many things
Camping it up
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
The joy of foreign accent
Le calendrier des agriculteurs
Con Ed and the Ramona St. Squirrel Squad
Twin Kings
Ex ūnō plūrēs
Wayne Thiebaud
Penguins among the asparagus
More news for cigars
More doodleages
Interview with a supremo
The Curious George caper
Two Daniel Zwickys
NPO
The abacus
The eyes reject
Calvin in chains
Language Sunday in the comics
Batty stuff
Stayin’ alive
Three from xkcd
Crotch news bulletins
Visiting cartoons
This week’s art news
Two red hot pokers
Ignaz Moscheles
Penguins a hundred years ago, and the niceties of captioning
Eleanor Zwicky Justice
Gay Santas 2016
More on the gay Santa watch
Two late December holidays
Discount tents
Mariano Hernán Mujica
The Yule log
Gay porn is hotter in a Santa cap
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/19/take-it-to-the-6th/
And venison is from Venus
It’s beginning to look a lot like Fishmas
The advancing horde of shelf elves
Edible adjectives
Morning music
Santatta is coming
A show about nothingness
and the art horse you rode in on
Two poems
Mac Daddy Santa
Christmas dinner from the ’70s
This year’s most puzzling Christmas card
Pharmaceutical morning names
Chocolate Santa, and more
What’s seasonal, round, white, and has berries on top?
The Christmas pickle
“an infamous pincher of ladies’ bottoms”
re-up syntax
Wally Cox
One more Santa cap
square feet
In the middle of things
Howard at 57
Surrealists, but especially Jess
Morning names for the new year
Asian male muscle in fantasyland
Two poems
Whimsical Park
Queens & Cowboys
Cake and Edith
Jizzball
A New Yorker POP
The carniguin
Gay men on the new subway walls
Epiphanic puns
mi krop
The epiphany’s over
The highly evolved fashion sense of faggots
Staying on topic; correcting
Sweet Jesus on a waffle cone!
Characters
Genuine mink jock
Dolores del Rio and Erno Piffle
Poplar Mechanics
It’s a miracle!
Squirrel Girl
Sticks and stones
Two character actors in the morning
Mathematical Principles of Natural Fig Snacks
Extreme emoji
I won’t even mention the auto-da-fé
Eschew the muu-muu
From MeatMarket.com
Meaty matters
Annals of double entendre
A label of love
Word balloons
Poppin’ Fresh in a pink dress
A day with Danny Vox in the ultimate fantasy t-room
A sex/gender symbol of the mind
A kiss is just a kiss
Today’s hot guy
Two in One Big Happy
Yesterday’s hot guy
The news for penises: Lunar New Year
Joe Gage
bro-verbs
POP + Pun
Gender and sexuality in the comics
fudge
fudge II
Borne again
At the Zippy Mart
QaF and its men
Geometric Joe
Beer pong
Theo Zwicky
doing fag
Caveman name fashions
Pop food edifice
Cedar Rapids
Two numerical ambiguities
Naming the Beast
finger foods
Saint George, patron saint of parks at night
Punk piano
Ruthie on language patrol
On the road from Frog Rock
More holiday food
Another tv hunk
The rarest of slurs
ReFo and K-Man
toonmanteaus
Dwarfs for a new age
Annals of adorable
The terror of Disney
Three exhibitions
Chocolates for Valentine’s Day
A blogging note
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/13/vday-hands-in-pants/\
VDay kiss-in
Our allotted span
Books from Stanford
Rainbow
Sex and smiles for VDay
VDay pangolins
One more VDay posting
The news for penguins and, oh yes, penises
A snapshot of the field
Flagrant figures
Emoji are the hieroglyphs of the future
Felix d’Eon: on normalizing gay
dying
They don’t get it
Stud Finder
Art of the penis
Playlinguist
horsetails
Blossoms from the south
New on my blog
Double your pleasure
ON in the comics
IN in the news
Briefly: today’s metrical pleasure
Objects in compounds
Understanding the comics
Meathead
Playing for laughs
Two from the 2/27 NYer
Coded!
Roll, Brittania
Morning: spanakopita
The beautiful immortal
Dash Manley
Demented p.r. pitches, absurd ad copy
Morning: La Salade Imaginaire
Arbitrary donuts
This weekend’s tv hunk
Ten language cartoons
Posole verde with chicken
The way we were
Displaying your nipples
More piggery
Seven years ago
Pretty in pink
An ambiguity you might not have noticed
Two Ztoons on language use
Today’s morning name: Topher Grace
CK basks in Moonlight
The little man with the laundry
Edward Sorel
Plant packages
Two notable plants
… And the American Way
A codgerie of shaggy men
Dystopic and anomic
stans
Five contorted cactuses
New Yorkistan
Adjunct or argument?
Women’s jobs, men’s jobs, feminine language, masculine language
Annals of p.r. pitches
Abstraction and the Movies
Family names
Marco Marco teases
He’s dancing with a laser up his butt
Name fame
stringers
The power of the Subject Rule
At the art museum
Tough talk
Body works
Body works, Part II: Mytilid Matters
Body work, Part III: Axillary Delights
Body works, Part IV: Anal Art
Bruce Nauman
Ya gotta know the matryoshkas
On the N + N compound watch
No whey in hell
Komodo dragon day
A Pinter moment
Mixing it up
“depriving healthcare for millions”
In the West Wing
Spring bulbs
pain in the X
Friday cartoon 1: the husky pup meme
Friday cartoon 2: Remembrance of Mustard Past
Friday cartoon 3: more news for penises
Katharina Zwicky
News for penises: a friend request
Ejaculatory pop
Dinobros
hyperbaton, hypermasturbation
bombogenesis
A political parable
Risible (faux-)commercial name
Technical terms
The (groan) burgers of Calais
Culinary linguistics
Pop, ejaculated the weasel
Bizarro pi(e)
Five tv hunks
Quotative all lives!
Lauren la flâneuse
Cavenips
Ben Rudisin
elephantitis
It was correction killed the desire
Sexting with emoji
Save a horse, ride a cowboy
Haley Bonar
The news for beavers
They are revolting
Fun with categories
An outrageous but colorful pun
The invention of the X job
On the boulevard of broken dreams with Kip Noll
The wishing ill
JoBroButts, Hills Bros. coffee, and gaybros
An early “is is”? Probably not.
Members Only: two moments
Bizarro compounds
Michael Ontkean
Pride of Madeira
Ruthie copes
Another phenomenally bad idea
Three
Billy Zane
Boris and Natasha advise POTUS
More on early “is is”
Men swear about menswear
The Ahab-Moby affair
No, they didn’t say that
He bloomed in March
The Phantom of the jungle library
Hitchhiking
Corey Saucier
National PB&J Day
On the road, a/some head
Sparky, Jasper, and Bunky
The Dominican brand copier
The Pyramids as abstractions
Signs and symbols
Quick, Bruce, the blat!
The blat-bray instrumental report
Lord Jeffrey Mammoth
Pick your Presidential pet
The Congressional Brain Injury Task Force
Hail to the Hyena-in-Chief
Plus ça change
The baby and the little kid (part 1)
Annals of normalization: on the Santa Claus watch
snatch
The Bronzed Horseman
The trophy boys park the beef bus in tuches town
The news for penises: Wanksy
Uneasy lies the head
A primate with a pipe
Pronouncing the 59th Street Bridge
The little kid (part 2)
Irritable vowel syndrome
Guest morning name: Venn
hockey puck
The Jargon Matrix
Three more Reapings
Interactions of phonological rules
On the quote watch
Mindlessness
Privative vocabulary in Ruthish
A cross-comic moment
Passover minestrone
The maiden, the monster, and the hero
A scent of man
New Yorker artwork 4/17/17
Out gay male bands
Peeps milk
Chub and chums in the morning
A pun with death, a dance on the beach
Calla, calla, calla, California
rest stop
Seahorse on a stick, GBF, and the Describe-A-Muffin Task
Ruthie and Joe work with what they know
Favorite operas
Alien signage and Arbus in Anaheim
Is that a Paschal Peep in your pouch?
Memorial song: Fellowship 330b
A mini-phal
You can call me Al
Zwicky takes us to Ballarat 60 years ago
LiveJournal is 18
There’s always room for another penguin or two
Saint Phalle
Faces
Friday word play in the comics
Faces follow-up 1: Master Beckford
Faces follow-up 2: Augusta Savage
base(ly)
Appeal to base instinct
Ruthie in the sky with O’Ryan
Camembert Day
Word by Word
Margalit Fox, Bruce Weber, and more
The Gay Sisters
Annals of interruption
Like a mayfly
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit: three cartoons for the 1st
To Be Young, Gay, and Chinese-American
Shelf Life
Semiotics of dress: the Age of High Gay
A musical decline
Annals of blending: a raucus
From the FoxFiles
Closets
Star Wars Day
Conjunct order in the comics
Four Days in May
Potato Head Strip Poker
blue jack
Words. words, words
What is figure, what is ground?
Mothers
Conferring
For want of an A, the world was saved
The Z with the ‘za
Regional potato chips
Two spectacular plants
The news for food, 5/11/17
Nudist penguins on parade
missing it
From the alien agriculture desk of the News for Penises
Toxic moments
I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valley
Months and days
Chenillar moments, including frass and lepidopterism
Six mothers
Fags Before Flags, and other in-your-face t-shirts
Names in the comics
Reading in the ’50s
ice plants
Write like the wind
Red hots, getcher red hots here!
Artichokes on the hoof
Larkin and the Gray Lady, again
Complementary ignorances
Presentation and perception
Housemates
Play with your hot dogs
Special counsel appointed
Ruthie faces the unfamiliar, again
Marco, Marco, Marco
Squid Pro Quo
Brainless Tales, with more news for penises
JHT photos: on the peony patrol
X with some X on the side and some X poured on top
Audiences
Injurious language (and the Lawrence family)
The front patio redivivus, and having Our House
Hang On Sloopy
The patio report
A failure of parallelism, sort of
Prepositions matter
A medical mouthful
“Farley”, the dog said, “get me a slice”
Corn snakes and eggplants
Veronica Salpiglossis, the Greek goddess of Gamble Garden
Dressing for June
Light, and sometimes mixed
Dog dogs
Arthur Laurents
1 Bizarro, 2 Bizarro
Let slip the dogs of Japan
Non-standard sex talk
Food art: still lifes
Rodeos and sword dances
Dreams and nightmares
Associative thinking
Memorial Saturday 4
In the neighborhood, with an O
Strawberry fields
Quesadilla benjamina (or something)
Puzzles, castles, and cake
Atypical Seuss
Flagging America
Red, white, and blue
The eve of Pride Month
Slow turtle and even slower snail
Shamisen moments
No te vayas de Zamboanga
Pride Time #1: the pink and the purple
Verbal magic in the workplace
Macho Muffler Man vs. the elite geek
Pride Time #2: the rainbow flag doodle
Needlepoint X
This is not a President
Dad dogs
Pride Time #3: On the menswear watch
Detached bodyparts in the comics
Another reversed Donald
Not until you’ve fried it
For the day
Fairy gardens
Griffy Dimwit
Distracting moments in gay male erotica
The word came down on Pentecost
An old resultative joke
An old mammoth joke
Speaking the language
Three cactuses
Music hath powers to repel the savage pest
It ended in a Mexican Caesar salad
Mixing it up
Shit yes! Fuck no!
Making fun of Batman
You can dress a fox in hen’s clothing, but…
Anniversaries: 50, 55, and more
On the fierce femininity of drag queens
Poems About Sluts
Pride Time #4: gay porn and gay bioflicks
Three garden ornamentals and two trees
For Saul Steinberg
Father and grandfather
News for penises: the Haring commemorative bathroom
Woolly Mammoth flips us the bird
For Eve V. Clark
Three days in one
Briefly: a demented p.r. pitch, an off-the-rails headline
Sales talk
Disinformation
Don Coleman
The thumbnail image, rainbows, and Pride
The terrible truth about bubble wrap
News for cacti and succulents 6/20/17
It was ever thus
Fixing things
The three Delfts
Rainbow TARDISwear
You can get anything in rainbow
Everything’s coming up rainbow
Typo time
Pride transit and flashy Pride boots
The homely pigeon
The feast day of Saint George of the Beverly Tearoom
Superhero sex on Spanish streets
Animated cartoons, fan art, same-sex love
Put a sock on it in parade season
Rainbow Batman
Scalarity on the menu
More Magrittean disavowals
The Ballad of Clark and Bruce: SuperBat of Pink Steel Forever
Futility as a figure of speech
Fellows
Annals of spiciness
In the dunes, in the dunes
The Treasure of the Singlet Padre
O Canada! Au Canada: le huard!
The patriotic fig leaf
Getting the comic
Another prohibition on tipping
Fay Zwicky
From a child’s viewpoint
Stuff your stuff in the flag
POP go the pheromones
Fedora days
More news not for penises
A vintage hat
Coconuts and Trumpets
Chast, Haefeli, Kaplan
Two artists: Land, Chast
What will become of me?
Words on a wall
Fixing things
Ruthie copes: Moses and the doggie bag
Taking the Magrittean Disavowal at face value
Office Goofiosity cuisine
Neighborhood gardens, heavy on purple
Toonies and their toons
The running of the bulldogs
pretzel dog
Today’s idiom blend
Vlad the Employer
Wonder Woman gets Milk Duds at the Charcoal Pit
Brewster Rockit to the rescue
Surreal juxtaposition
Wonder Bears!
Ostentatious euphemisms
A blue period
The company darling
Amoeba humor
Start spreading the gnus
POP with Poe
On offer at Daily Jocks
Ovaltine mornings
Taking a dark ride
Getting into harness
More pipe philosophy
Superficial oxymorons
Codpieces on Cellblock 13
A hot dog foodmanteau
No moths, no squirrels, no rats
look pretty Adj
From Tex-Mex to naked rugby
I sing the body elastic
Electric charges
Musical synchronicity
Cover me, slowly
Christian Sauce
The queer quilt
Today’s comic comprehension test
Zippy and Griffy on the Hanna-Barbera diner tour
Capitulum in corpore magno
Slangy Spanish hot dogs
Three names
Adventures in compounding
Self-referential cartooning
Dumb questions
Annals of sweetness
A stay in medical Antarctica
Cartoon comprehension on a hot August day
WaynoPOPs
The clean-gasm
Don’t put your cat in a hat
This way to the regress
Words as weapons, images as ideas
trug
Young love
The taunt
Who was that masked Pinhead?
Further adventures in cartoon understanding
Kangaroo Paste, the Australian hair gel
All the /do/s
Billy the Berlin Barboy
Construct-a-joke
Metalinguistic tasks
The War of the Weeds
Hold me
Reduced coordination, joke forms, and sociocultural categories
… joke forms …
Four more Kite collages
Two European estates in America
Combos
More Zippy-O-Rama
July 24th, p. 9: two artists
Gay slurs in New Zealand
In camera
Skinless wieners
Two cartoonists take on Charlottesville
August 21st: two cartoons
Two magazine covers
Zwicky Avenue
Make America grate again
Playing an old lady
Big-ass globalization
Magrittean disavowals
lucanicophilia, peniphilia, and all that
An urban jungle
Pouring it on
cut the bill in half
Nazis and neo-Nazis
HIH and his boys
Angels in Palo Alto
Future’s so bright
The FaSoLa Cafe
Dipspreads in the 60s
Bluto says: join or else
-izing the dog
Annals of NomConjObj: Miss Adelaide
Revisiting 1: Will McPhail
Revisiting 2: Despacito
Revisiting 3: dirty dogs
Revisiting 4: Luna Park
Sago palms
Revisiting 5: Don Bosco
Speaking, writing, bubbles
Unguinal genitalia
Terms of endearment
Revisiting 6: Fire Island Pines
Turkey Perky Jerky
The cop and the gunner’s mate
Solid Chet and lean Bo
California fuchsia
A tartan for my ilk
The Fountain of Angels in America
Reduced questions
Pennsylvania Dutch country
In bronze and marble
On the food watch: iguanas
On the food watch: Texas fried
BBC for Labor Day
Bosco 3
Sex puppies for the holidays
Sea foam
Where is Gilroy?
Obsolete technologies and middle verbs
Antique technology (and its songs)
Birthday notes
Irmas
Locked out, memorably
Dinners at Beaumont Rd., 1969-1973
Runner ducks, runner beans, rubber ducks
The fan, the spathiphyllum, and the impressionist garden
The regional languages of France
Cat on a silken thread
Further adventures in medicine
Three years of Xmas sweets
Wild Asia in Sonoma
A marmot sang in Graubünden meadows
The many and the one
The NL:W punchline
Rubber ducks, by the bag
Steak bombs
not agree with
Hot Lips
Revisiting 7: NL:W
Tower viewers
freak shows
Blue Curls
I like pig butts and I cannot lie
Disney meets Tom of Finland
Sports Monday Linguistics
Rewind the music, cover your bones with rainbow
Briefly 9/21/17: prawn corndogs
Briefly 9/21/17: paresthesia
Three rocks
Husbands and wives
Bear chairs
Two from 9/8
Boys with Plants
A sapsucking planthopper
Stuck in Folsom Prison
retainers
Naked came the mammoth
The 5-paragraph essay
In the faggot zone
Tied up in paisley
Black bread and pickled herring
Ice Dance in the garden
The birthday singing
Two lx profs and two psych profs walk into a surgery center
The fatal bookpile
From marbles and barbats to challah
kaleidoscopic
Briefly: cartoon corgi in love
douché!
The archangel Michael
Mapping the bookstores
Ecstasy
One-hit grinders
Adventures in cross-comicality
Two musical flash mobs
Repetitive phrase disorder
Doorman of the underworld
Z is for zip
I’m silently labeling you an asshole
The Amelioration formula
The news for musical chameleons
He opened his mouth
Noodling with formulaic language
He had an American name
Focus on the dal
The perils of parallelism
Performance ambiguity
Pizza Boy outtakes
The pizza boy as cultural figure
Ascending and parting
Earth Dean
Swords up on Friday the 13th
Traveling around with Zippy
Political wagyu
Clowns and their balloon animals
Wrinkle cream
Angel Eagle’s knights
A musical journey to NW MA
Lilyturf, bronze pin heads, and ungrammatical yucca
Revisiting 8: Rod Canyon
Mahonia, Berberis, Ilex
de poepende man
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/18/whom-were-never-officially-honored/
Ruthie on meanings
Rat and Pig in Santa Rosa
A processed food flavor
Household gifts
A portmantriple
Gift postcards
Revisiting 9: ¡-ola!
The pumpkin spice cartoon meme
Mistered and Ma’amed
Gendered moments in the comics
Revisiting 10: Dare, sweet spice
Eggcornic verse
Three more pumpkin-spicy bits
The Zwicky engine of Harringay
Another gendered moment in the comics
Further adventures in cartoon understanding
Japanese clam congee
March of the rainbow mixers
Zipparchitecture on two coasts
Skeleton rainbow
Herons in the garden
twicker tweet
Mellowcreme pumpkins
Getting into gear for Halloween
Three kinds of cartoons
Puns and portmanteaus, polar bears and hippos
A Zwicky of flavour physics
This machine kills fascists
Singing at the Theatre de Lys
On the pickle watch
The Pink Fellowship
Can you say “cat”? Can you spell “cat”?
Edgar Allan Peau
Show me the way to go home
Grammar police on the highway
The succulent report
In a bun, in a bun!
Attenuative morphology
Alpine news for penises
Exercises in commercial style
Off like a herd of turtles
Revisiting 11: news for wooden penises
The wonderful world of Batsportation
From the great Anatomic War
sharp, sour
Comics about comics
The silence of the H’s and the nastiness of the narg
At the Little Tavern in Laurel
Rice pudding in the land of quilted steel
A tale of two flowers
Food rebellion
This week’s news for pickles
From social media to the comics
Orchids on the march
Environmentally responsible derivation
Igor®, the Siberian shape-shifter
toss salad, fry shrimp, and other t/d ~ ∅
3 for 15
Wet words
The Mankoff rat cartoon
Revisiting 12: chop salad
Follow-ups: t/d-deletion
Taking it easy
Singing in parts
Obviously
Words on the big outside place
Fruity Fruit Froot
More cartoon comprehension
Three news bulletins for penguins
Music the trigger of emotional memory
Pengaddendum: Xmas 2014
Xmas bell flowering maple
??That is aliens for you.
¡Albondigas! ¿No te dije?
Superhero supper
Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart
Mens Room Sausage
Skip to the important bit
Two Thanksgiving meals
pillowslip
The leafy N + N compounds of fall
The pun within the pun
BF pornopaloozas
Pillowtalk
Guess I’ll go eat worms
The two Salome Zwickys of Zürich
Again, the rowers of Warwick
The post-Thanksgiving news from 52 years ago
Revisiting: Good Night, Salome
Talking to the hand
The Unusual Two
The Pun of the Month® for November 2017
Two memic moments
A golden moment
Male scale
Maple Donuts, coffee shops, and unapologetic identities
Waving the flag
Two and a cover
Another ship reaches port
Arnold Stang
Who views what
Off with their heads!
I say it sounds yucky, and I say the hell with it
A dark week in early December
Ruthie verbs
100 years of independence
Revisiting 14: belly buttons
gruggerwear
The saguaro in bloom
Monkey see, monkey fear
The Hollywood sign in a time of troubles
The other Elizabeth Zwicky
Frank and John in 1971
Another Arnold Zwicky, and several Arnold near-Zwickys
Revisiting 15: Salome, Conrad, and more Zs
poach egg
Revisiting 16: pouch(ed) and scrumble(d) eggs
Exercises in high macho style
Er ist der Schönste in Berlin
Ruthie falls into the deontic-epistemic pit
The news for penises, St. Lucy’s Eve edition
Revisiting 17: Bills Ballhaus in Bilbao
A decent woolly mammoth and a nice bit of shirtless cowboy
Xmas follies 2017: the music
Xmas follies 2017: the decorations
Xmas follies 2017: the clothing
A tale of a bed: from removal to revival
Xmas, Zippy, Sartre, the Big Duck, and Nedwig, too
Moby Chick, Moby Duck, Moby Dip
Xmas follies 2017: the food
Xmas follies 2017: the shirtless men of the season
The news for mammoths: toy stories
Adventures in buggery and beanbags
From the archives of avoidance
Is that all there is? Just platypi and clichés?
after-SPARs
Yet more green leaves and red berries
The flying bucket on Sepulveda
Jerry Fodor
And for your Xmas viewing pleasure…
Memory and the power of diner food
Another crop of homoXmas ads
they kitchen-kissed again
Amazing Grace of the Rising Sun
Salisbury NC 60, 70 years ago
Easter Island holiday
The power of the pen
Maggie Larson and New Yorker women
Xmas news for penguins
Sterek
to pizza-make
Morning tetrameter naming
Operator symbols
Expletive syntax: I will marry the crap out of you, Sean Spencer
Bromance for Biffs
News for penises: artwatch
George Booth at 90: elephants and holidays
News for penguins, penises, and Totoro
A Zippy query
El Bruto commands
No vacancy
Between Parody and Pastiche
Chandleresqueness to Mittyesqueness
A mystery cookie Zwicky
More spent husks
A double regularity
tooken by the senses taker
Two puns for Thursday
A zeugmoid in high office
A news bulletin for scrotums
Spathy in maturity
Usage note: NomPred
But that’s not I nor you
This week’s terrible literary food pun
Epiphany morning with Joey Tribbiani
News from the Mormon territories
Exclamations
Another visit to Felicia’s
The clowns of death and the frogs of Wellsboro
Orchids in the rain
Yet another Xmas package
Puns and metatheses
Electric underwear
The triumph of confidence over expertise
STIR FRYS
Theft and retrieval
Attack of the custardy torus
Reindeer and lynx — and wolves and bears, oh my!
Out of the Inkwell
LGBT news from Stanford
More George Booth
Large Interior Form
Objects of carnal desire
Donnelly Rhodes
An infestation of rodentiphobia
Syntax assignments from 20 years ago
Gay men and straight women
This week’s stellar typo
Four more recent cartoons
Adventures in cataloguing: the muscular finger action figure
Art news from my neighborhood
Nominalized reversed substitute
Zippy returns to Cranston RI
Andrea Zwicky
Another reversed Exchange verb
Some winter flowers
The penguins are coming, the penguins are coming
The BP amputee
The add-an-R game
Tulip trees and magnolias
Annals of innuendo
Two cute guys with accents
Pretty in pink 2018
When is Doris Day?
X matter
The Star-Spangled Baseball
The Sex Games
With an ax(e)
Mary Jane comes to Palo Alto
Syntext: basic concepts
He meant to say “supine”
Talking Black in America, West Coast
A noncelebratory week
Briefly: edible trochaic tetrameter
Up in every way
Days of sensual pleasure
Annals of signs and symbols: gender-neutrality
This week’s musical food toy pun
Tell them you haven’t seen him
Morning millionaire
Fun with spelling
God is in the detailing
Putting the carnal in Carnival
In the sculpture garden
Ruthie reasons analogically
Vronsky & Babin in the morning
Butch homowear news for dogs
An Oscars-night groaner
Adventures in alcohol
acyrologia
There otter be a law
Lexical adventures in the Sacred Harp
Death’s end
Computer annals: Reyes Korzybski and the avalanche of spam
News for penguins: yakking it up, chasing bubbles
Camo Traplat poses
Dancing with the cars
Retro chic
In service to Erebus
Ballet Down the Highway
POP on the half shell
Nanette Fabray
Call me by your name
On the book beat: Field linguists on fieldwork
Familiar cartoon themes: Waldo and sugar bombs
Two memic cartoons
The penguins fly to Orlando
Yet another WaynoPOP
fingerwork
Annals of advertising: Dollar Shave Club
Aria 51
The Euclid pun again
lubricity
Michael Siemon
Annals of casual speech
The scythe in the casket
fresh underwear
Totorons
The further adventures of Dick Danger
scratch and sniff card
Annals of sport/art
Annals of shirtlessness: French neo-Classicism
Shirtlessness and more: Bouguereau and Sargent
Mistakes in avian medicine
Zane Grills
Adventures in antonymy
The Waldo watch
Bibliomania
Pi Day 2018
giving a speech on drugs
Name association chains
Nick Capra
Pi Day + 1
MerBros and more
The town that time forgot
I wandered lonely as a pork cloud
It’s hard, ain’t it hard
Affective style: chill vs. loud
Cumshots from muscle daddies
The cartoon doctor
Extended 69
Manly St. Patrick
Irish loco moco with eggs
Adam Hillman: rainbows and food
Return to Dover DE
The family fetish
I Was a Cock-Teaser for Roosterama!
Perfectionist in pink sequin
Evacuation Day, Removal Day
You want beer with that pork cloud?
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world/
A bread maker, Alan?
Fifty shades and the Justice League
nameless sodomites
The subway cartoon
The Legend of Hercules
The meaning of “is”
Labeling the world
The sociolinguistics of Chicano English sh/ch in ‘El Barrio’
What does a wooden penis mean?
Gayupid’s Arrow: We are everywhere, and now you are too
The grandeur of Versailles commodes
Annals of underwear: the medical jock strap
A hopeful misreading
Three Saturday lingtoons
Active shooters, armed gunmen, and their ilk
Art objects and utilitarian objects
this guy
Two (more) Sunday cartoons
Haiku Robot
The Caesar cocktail
Todrick Hall
picadillo
Deacccenting
It was 53 to 55 years ago today
An idiom comes to life
V-headed compounds
Deviant Last Suppers
The pisco sour
Bits of culture
Secretive morning name
Pride Time #5: on Barceloneta beach
Deviant Passover rites
Little Orphan Anime
Easter Anthem: the text
Jewish gay men
Easter Fool’s
Dancer faces
Two Easter cartoons
Know Your Menu
Retouching Rico Marlon
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Another Magrittean disavowal
Dick Oehrle; Morris Halle
Ruthie confronts idiomaticity
Morning name: Harry
Research Risks and Name Dominoes
Watercolor journeys
Mood swings
More 1970s underwear
Family matters
Water source of questionable information
The cymbidium report 4/7/18
Three weekend cartoons: POP goes the caveman couple, recursively
Jessica Dragonette in the morning
The gay world of Yvon Goulet
Two cartoons from friends
On the fisting patrol
The sounds of spring
Fisto
Moments of color
chicken fried chicken
Green wieners
Thumbing his thoughts
The Prodigal Tongue
Tomato mayonnaise
Tail caps
New frontiers in POPs
Zombie animations in development
Cave painting
Cuppy and his cub
Lars Kenseth
New idioms
limbo dancers
Cartoons on SF earthquake day
Erective affinities
On the food and drink beat
Faucet handles
Sein Dopelgänger
The rainbow beard
The world out my front door
FoosChicken
Personal anniversaries in 2018
The Shadow knows
Pestilences in Pa. Dutch country
The novelist in the fortune cookie
A war of initialism
Samuel Beckett’s sitcoms
Spring flowers, common and exotic
POP POP
No shoes, take 2
Polydactyly
At the t-room urinals
World Penguin Day
New on the patio
Unsavory moments on AZBlogX
Another quick cartoon comprehension quiz
Cold Comfort Brooklyn
What’s wild and patriotic and orange all over?
Hugely muscular androgyny
Don’t deny your cravings
The shateria
Another portmanrito
Drove my Chevrolet
Dad’s tall tales
Frieda Box
Return to Austin TX
acuminate
Visit to a Small Planet
All the dessert world is not either cake or pie
Books and their covers
Antimetricality
Meadowland fauna!
Food news in the neighborhood
Prickly silk
Song for the day: rabbit rabbit rabbit
The cheese grater
Another signage ambiguity
Treasure the asymmetry
Stanford Arizona III
Stanford Arizona IV
Stanford Arizona V
He’s got the moves
A Brokavian crash blossom
He said “prickles”
Waldo Chast
Green trunks in the desert
Eskimo N in Britain
CAKE-PIE II
Pickled pricks
Then, if ever, come lusty days
jam
Stuff your furry friend
Initialisms off the rails
The roar of the reporter, the sound of the comics
Mayotoon
Lusty days
Syntax Wars: The Saga Continues
Said the rapper to the geek
On the track of men’s deodorant
50 shades of green
Land of Encroachment: the lizards
The profane domain
slugs
More restaurant news
Four things are two binary oppositions
My skivvies are my lifestyle
haws, hawthorns, Haworth, Haworthia, Hawick
Spoiling
mailman lady
The way I write now
Another fusirrito
Festival Burgundy
What have you done with your life?
slide in(to) (y)our DM’s
Smart Design
The poppies of summer
The patio boys: Cuppy, Ti-Boi, and Cairo Callen
Differentiae
Forever Gay
Down and dirty underwear for Mothers Day
For Mothers Day
Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar
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icelandic-edition/
Gay butterflies
Call me by my full name
Psychiatrist Meme Day
Fenwick the semi-generic
Air spelling
On the rainbowwear beat
Paperback Booksmith
The turquoise dish
Surreal beer
There oughta be a word
trigger finger
Deshagged and pedicured
Glycoscience in the Royal Society of London
Balls on the N + N compound watch
What have you done with your life? The LGBT department
The 6-fold way
Rolling pin
The egg patrol: plastic to porcelain
Charmed, I’m sure
Two from Fairbanks
Blue light special
A zombie lurches in the NYT
bunny ears
If I might interrupt…
Everything under comptrol
Crowing
The cumless cake
(I just) can’t stop (it)
brotastic
The art class
Crude japery
Today’s misreading: life behind piano bars
Syntactic phrase, compound word, portmanteau
Similarities
Discordance
bossercize
Involuntary memory
In the morning: the B list actor and the scholar
Porn for the holidays, with narrowed eyes
Non sequiturs meet associative thinking
A-lists and B-lists
Fenwich, come here, I need you
More porn for the holidays
The Zippyphone game
Chez Le Fourmilier
The things that a Dingburger needs
Merer, merer
It’s alive!
Alchemilla
punks
A plant too invasive even for me
A delicious Jew
Dramatic exits
A chiastic bird
Typewriter poets
Narrative theory at the therapist’s
Bathroom words
Panic in Quercy Park
Annals of gangbanging: Anonymous in Brooklyn
Two little words
What happened in vagueness?
Metered verse
The rose and the flames
The canine therapist
Again with the nose job
Bromuniqués
We are everywhere, and we have penguins
mean age
Now We Are Nine, a Journey to the East
Swiss watchmakers
contractions
White stars on a field of green
White stars on a field of green, part 2
I love Moscow with chocolate syrup on top
The possessed and the damned gather over cheese dip
whom can be pardoned
Gearing up for Fathers Day
Rainbow moments
In case of cartoons, see therapist
Purple Pride
Mister Muntz
Another moment between Parody and Pastiche with Raymond Zippandler
A classic word confusion
The Calvin Klein pentachromatic neon rainbow
24 Hours, 24 Kisses and 24 Magazine Covers
Pride space flags
Drunk Cartoons
Midnight in Cuba
Background foods and food discoveries
Proper nouns
DJ is chaired at Stanford!
Why? Why?
An old mishearing
Muscle daddies for Fathers Day
Return to the E. Zwicky grain mill
Fried eggs and fairy wands
The wands, magic wands, and fairy wands of Pride
A Swiss thread
The ways of plants are inscrutable
Annals of appalling food
The cheese of my forebears
Mascots united
Up in the air, sky-high, sky-high
Return to the Amherst Diner in Winchester VA
A pixelated morning
Four things for Pride
A Swiss thread in Paris
The musician, the mayor, his instrument, and their vermin
Midsummer cartoons
JOR: LATINO SPIRIT
Hydrangeal matters
Deterrence, lessons, and examples: pour encourager les autres
Three Züricher Peter Zwickys
Swiss spin-off: Wallisellen
Swiss spin-off: Züricher Geschnetzeltes
Drunk Cartoon POP
More Pride events
Mix and match
Just a hijink
Swiss spin-off: herringbone tweed
Paul Octavious
Characters 1
Characters 2: Perry the Platypus
Characters 3: Cony and Brown
Aroused soap-opera scientists and the Stanford screw-moss
Photobombing Magritte
Ethmoid morning
Annals of edibilia: Hissing Cockroach, Severed Genitals
World UFO Day
The Taco Bell doll
Foswelch in Formstone
Sticks and cubes
mirepoix
czl.ch
The multi-speed rainbow buttlight penguin (in blue)
Food and sex for the 4th
Following instructions
Adam atom
Word division days
How to use the F-word
Swiss cheese isn’t Swiss
What did the Cretan bull say to Hercules when the hero tamed him?
seller / cellar
grill(e)
Golden Meanies
On the Beast beat
Swiss steak
Punallusive protest
Braised short ribs with Swiss chard, and the Swiss Hotel
On the black cat patrol
19th-century Swiss steak
Charlotte
Chard semantics, chard art, and chard food
Avoid needless menu words
Get your cruise face on
Jurassic Jeff
Beheaded pizza
Taking the trolley
Bewitched, bothered, and bedeviled
Swiss America
Aspectual distinctions in the comics
Swiss Navy
Rubber and glue
furūtsu sando
Death by verbing
Scars
Hybrid referent, portmanteau name
That bastard mongrel half-breed, the tromboon
It’s all foreign to Ruthie
Death by staircase
At Boulders Beach
Hi-g pun for Xmas in July
Nacho flies are back
I Am Your Bottom
The ants are my friends?
Hockney paints Daley
Local news: weather and food
Rainbow pasta
Motherhood and stupid PAP
Mud, shit, and chocolate
BILLY COLLINS Billy Collins
Men for men, and perilous translation
Swiss National Day! (with a query)
Amazing grease
Male crop tops!
Advances in phobology
The rainbow pillars of Montréal
Ruthie and the language of doughnuts
Cultural knowledge
Creams
Toga, togae, togae!
Friends of friends
Two occasions, four cartoons
Two texties, in two tonalities
The elephant in therapy
Succulents on a rampage
The Gay Village, Swiss Chalet, poutine
Dix-huit nuances de gai
Les poutineurs de Montréal
P-alliterative and tetrametric lines
Why choose when you can have both?
In Syntax Country
The nacho cart
Butch fagginess
Head in hands
At the eggcorn’s edge
Lantana on the trail
Central Shark
Book flash: New Work on Speech Acts
Rainbow. Sharks. Rainbow sharks.
Annals of Aussie fast-food excess
The crystal ball of cartoon understanding
Morning names: Hai Karate, Dirk Diggler
Grammarian Magazine
End of season
Another puzzle in cartoon understanding
Anaphora into proper names
Hazard signage
More bedevilment
Asking questions and giving commands
News flash for penguins: up in the sky!
Jo Flamingo
volumptuous
“The hell is that guy doing?”: predator-truncated QuEx
Late summer food
Dong Goodwin
Fantasy originalism
But is it a cartoon?
The penis art of David the Robot
The Three Marcos, the Three Marcusites
Ruthie faces literal ambiguity
The emotional portmanteau pentagram
Annals of appalling food, dessert division
Melodramamine
Bruce Weber II: the photographer’s gaze
EDM +of +a :PL
On the journalism watch
Mandarin orange at the Malamute Saloon
Swiss art supplies in the morning
Cartoon understanding: more Leigh Rubin
An explosion of succulents
Subscendence by sugar bomb
Stick insects and tree crickets
Further adventures with Low Attachment
Ruthie reanalyzes, and so do lots of others
Molesting and abusing ambiguously
Uneasily cute
Goldenrods and Boston cops
Union strong!
Brush away the blue-tailed skink
More lists
Attack of the mammoth penguins
Three bulletins
Through the centuries in the morning
Negation Day
I gotta go
The cartoon milkman
Rainforest houseplants
toro katsu and more
Fruit cream tarts, one with pansy
Neighborhood flora: the cranesbills
News for penises: images, accidental and intentional
Neighborhood flora: Chinese elms
Waving your flag
The news for shoes
Proustian paradise poems
Mornings in Greece and Rome
La décolletagiste dans la cuisine
Bridge Over the River Kawaii
Two bookish Tom Gaulds
Neighborhood flora: phormiums
A transatlantic exercise in cartoon understanding
therapist dog, dog therapist
Stormy compounds in English
Sleep on, harvest moon
The dog therapist is IN
Inch by inch
Angerland
Mike Lynch
From vine to towering tree, in four steps
Briefly noted 9/27/18: a remarkable name
Calling off the dogs
Swine alive or dead
Angerland in Cambridgeport
Attaching an 8-page essay at Wheaton College
AZ on imperfect rhyme
Imperfect rhyme, part 2
Sexual faces
#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob for linguists
Jumping higher than a house
The Rickford plenary address
The autumnal Humpty Dumpty
Another ubertwink
Twisting in the wind
He shot the serif
Imperfect rhyme, part 3
News for French penises
Ancient of days
Briefly noted 10/7/18: a scope ambiguity
Fly formulaicity
Nomenclature as destiny
Fruit bars
Figgy clamshells
Contractualism, the sitcom!
Two word confusion cartoons
Chic peas and more
Variationist sociolinguistics: NWAV 47
Fables of the trees
Piñata under the gun
The Warren Cowgill student fellowship
An ailuropodal moment
PUMP!ing it up
What’s he like?
What room am I in?
She called herself Lil’
Numbers and names
Dark magic
The Tritoons gather by the river
A book for the professor
Use skate in a sentence
Taffy was a Turk
Three exercises in cartoon understanding
At duty on the moors
The holidays of our lives
Another food holiday
holibolups
63 years of green beans, mushroom soup, and fried onions
Revisiting 18: hypallage in the garden
Annals of appalling trifles
Famous wolf on the Yellow Brick Road
A reading
Revisiting 19: more proxy names
Revisiting 20: X Places
Sweet stuff
News for penises: the Halloween gay porn report
News for pumpkins: art and science
Annals of word retrieval: in promiscuous positions
Annals of euphemism: degrees of avoided expletivity
Panda Puffs and Fruity Pandas
Mandala swimmer, Kali tat, Banksia stamp
Halloween detritus
Arousing the beast
A commercial zeugmoid
Cartoon understanding in parallel worlds
On the doo-wop gender train from the past
News for penises: salt and pepper
A word for it: teknonymy
Bite me, Count Bendix!
Shake, shake, shake that death rattle
Reciprocity in the profane domain
Teddy Bears’ Picnic Day
Randy Blue purifies the air
Gesneriana
groins
Revisiting 21: registering Mr. Banner
Revisiting 22: now with berries and cherries
Wisc Swiss music
OBH analyses
Giving thanks with Roz Chast
A fantasy exercise in cartoon understanding
Annals of error: name retrieval in the news
Rainbow shopping days
What do you have?
Morning at the bottom of the sea
Tea-tag aphorisms
croquet monsieur
On the Swiss poster patrol
Today’s stunning word retrieval error
Put an egg on it
A grotesque word
Swiss Tasmania
He came from the sea … And can only love me
OBH information
A morning in the home counties
Green flowers
Climax Jerky
A seasonal groaner
Bobby Pyron
A morning in the Blue Period
Nur in der Schweiz
Annals of everyday objects: the garlic press
Note: the insect apocalypse
Wok it to the golden Lab for analysis, har-de-har-har
A Picardy morning
Santa Barbara: smite him with lightning
News for bears: St. Corbinian
News for (massive) dogs: St. Bernard of Menthon
uncle-o-nym
O happy day! Annals of hypallage 2018
O rosemary, my rosemary
News for bears: cities of bears
Books of the year
A vernacular construction?
Grass-fed beef
Understanding Bizarro
Notes on PSP = PST
Smoke from an island
Meaty faggots
Cartoon cereals
Song of the season
Prosthetics on an anaphoric island
Three artists
The corten zoo of Fernando Suárez Reguera
Give Head for Christmas!
Taboo book notice
Appearances
Regionally ambivalent Switzerland
Yoo-hoo, Aargau!
Mid-December celebrations
Four Swiss rolls
Penguins and packages
The Swiss diaspora: Steinlen in Montmartre
Nationality: the case of Albert Einstein
On the international waffle patrol
A snappish portion of the class
Ask not for whom the reaper scythes
Sports commentary
Needles and scales
22-festoon!
For the season: from fish to moose, penguin intervention
Festoonists
Santa Jaws
Peppernut Day
Seasonal thanks
O croquembouche, my croquembouche
Worst year ever
The 12 days of Christmas
Santa Paronomasia
Beat Noel
Decorative
Annals of everyday objects: Anchor ovenware
Four presents
Diminished with age
Penguin Claus
The family of Word Inclusion snowclones
On the 8th day
bait and tackle
Yet another Switzerland
News for penises: Bourdain’s Bhutan
Nighthawks in search of an artist
The side display
Ruthie x 3
Sexual displays > offers: prone, supine, lateral
Rice and beans for New Year’s
Fiction: He Kissed Me
Annals of indirection
Nighthawks on New Year’s
Three Kings from 1900
Private conlangs in the comics
pinochle
Annals of goofy kitchenware
Revisiting 23: Chavacano
Picturesque Mollis, with helicopters
Startling NomConjObj on the editorial page
Playful anaphoric islanding
Lessons from the English Auxiliary System
The poetry corner
Know your Prideful polarites
Stay ware!
One more January 20th penguin
Squirrely
On the euphemism watch
Uri and Avi
The dog who would be penguin
Penguin bearing wild strawberries
ivy duff
Being cardioverted
Crusty salmon shortcakes
Nolde to de l’Écluse to Busbecq
Pythonic curtain line in the Economist
Blue roses
Ruthie’s New Year’s Eve
News for Aussie penises on their national day
hunter gatherers
Two specialist porn companies
Winter gardens
Phil comes out
The party linguist
The party linguist
A camelid from darkest Peru
Greg Patton, dba Rod Phillips
Hugo Simberg
Manly in Australia
Suspended Christmas
The natural history of snowclones
Gleaning
The crusty old editor speaks
Better than ABC order
Another family food holiday, and alternatives to it
Ruthian lexical items in real life
Mandolin Orange
Cowboy casserole
The symbolisms of the pig
The thread drifted in my direction
Aquatic carpentry
Three Pearls
Displaced icons of art
French 2sg pronouns
Gin and glassware
The thinking condom’s typeface
Age cannot wither them
Annals of sweevory food: my Japanese Valentine
In the diaspora
individuals, people, persons
Captain of our fairy band
Allusions to titles past
Mesh Man: Always Open for Business®
Revisiting 25: Alligator Goodbyes, now in song
Revisiting 26: LGBT etc. etc.
From the files of facial expressions in gay porn
Be more Michael B. Jordan
What’s become of derivations? Defaults and invocations
Presidents Day weekend in Berkeley
Eat it! The oral humiliation you deserve
Three exercises in cartoon understanding
Film watch: men kissing men
Wading with Vladimir and Estragon
News for penises: notes on phallophilia
For gay penguins, science and Canada!
In the land of supertitles
Driving it home
An omission
Committing a McKean
A walk up Emerson St.
The great work begins
Grammar pirate
Annals of misreadings: the Cthulhu caper
Inhaling pop culture
Eat the sugar bomb for the beanie
Body-location, event-location
F-sharp
The leek and the daffodil
Resources: dangler examples
fried chicken waffle Benedict
Another hybrid food, no portmanteau name
The wherewolf
The MetaCat
My darling clematis
The didactyl anteater, Anteater D, aka The Antedater
Hard Tundra
carnitas
Another 100k spams
Collagen days
The cable gremlins
Vasodilation
News for penises, French Riviera edition
Boynton: hippos and an occasional pig
Roland B. McRiver
The SemFest 20 handout
The lives of the French artists
Caribou with a pair
le naufrage, le naufragé
V me, I’m Irish
Bidding farewell to /ǰæk/
Cum, sweat, and broccoli
Le retour des hiéroglyphes
Low back issues
A small moment of lexicographic fame
The moving sale
Reubens, kale, and Cales
Lilo & Stitch
You can’t get no ways…
Consumer advocacy in Florida
Pushing the boulder up the hill
Revisiting 27: Lilo, Stitch, Bouba, and Kiki
Through a glass penis, darkly
They might be herons
Two cents, common sense, incense, and peppermints
Revisiting 28: van Gogh and Redon
Lilacs in California: Lavender Lady
How to use your balloons
News for carnivorous penises
Moon shorts 1: the Moons
Revisiting 29: chants/chance
Moon shorts 1a: Cosmé McMoon
Ed (the) Ped
Science, charity, and adverbial ambiguity
The trail mixer
Two moments of iridaceous naming
Control your johnson
Annals of cultural cluelessness
The serial entrepreneur of Victoria BC
Athletica Sport Dick, how I admire thee
Crunching the festive rabbits
Monsters and their Peeps
An art of leaves and rocks
Sluicing in Chicago
Meaty mammoths, cat vs. dog
Fickle tart
Easter egg quotations
The taXXXman will come for you
If you can’t spell it, you can’t sell it!
She got pinched in the As … tor Bar
The last Peepshow
Le Pingouin aux Parapluies Roses
The white and the red
Will the real Zippy please stand up?
Two evolutions
Let’s have a kiki … in me
The Easter egg in the salt mine
A Ceci disavowal
The self-published book
Boynton penguin days
A standout in his shorts
All ˈlaundry ˈis a ˈblur of ˈstatic ˈcling
Where are you going with that?
NomConjObj in the New Yorker
The May flower
Here we come a-frankerin’
Early summer
Revisiting 30: Fragonard at Neuschwanstein
The hand that cradles the tree
Fill me with chocolate cream
get ’em, stop it, gimme
The Discreet Sportswear of the Bourgeoisie
Wooden arches
Ariperro
A coincidence of days
It’s come around again
The GRP of Montpelier VT
Annals of inadvertently cute creatures
Super Calla Fraggle-istic
Not 2-1S, but 1-3P
The dragons of Homoland
Parade of Fangs, Eye of the Pumpkin
News for penguins: the misread petrel
The larval menace in their tents
News for Fenis
Is Timmy in trouble?
Pooh’s honey pot
Ostentatiously playful allusions
Great twerks of the 19th century
Annals of fruity goodness: the strawberry file
Stravinsky’s 1970 Firebird and the Ghoulliard Quartet
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/21/das-wappen/
What a piece of work is Miss Lucille
Tsviki from Belarus
The videographer
homeworks
The ballet of Mango Meshman
Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin
High 5 from a bison
Follow-up: John Rechy
Why is he calling her his thesaurus?
Learnèd cowboy joshing on the dusty plains
Semantics of compounds
On the dog food watch
Wisely seasoned
Flirting with magenta
Ultimate spelling bee
Follow-up: magenta greens
Follow-up: BOOIESUZYKQHHHH
The dog of ivy
Annals of misreading: CEAUSESCU
perennial, evergreen, hardy
The Chinese diner
Pride month in Antarctica
What makes the world go round?
Lemon is the vanilla of Italian ices
The Mememobile
Come frolic and cavort in the water
Follow-up: things that make the world go ’round
A superheroic identity crisis
On this day in 2019
Trix is for kids
The clown facial
Portraits of Frank O’Hara
The Magnificent WaterSports
Two comics explained
Mickey gets stuffed for Pride
You shouldn’t have done that
Over the edge with formulaic language
On your knees for St. George Michael
Fashion notes for Pride 2019
Torus! torus! torus!
A postcard from the (northern) edge
Books on tape
The Desert Island Reaper
Some of us are gay
Today’s art quiz: Skylunch III
A bit more reaping
Oh Canada baby, ripple my maple leaves!
The fiberglass men of Skylunchland
Numerology
Am I a bird?
Death, first as tragedy, then as farce
A building guide for the perplexed
4th of July displays
GN/BN
Nudie tales
Count of Denmark
My industry
Joke malaprops
Three Pride moments
The clown barber of Custard Street
The Avocado Chronicles: 2 etymology and etymythology
Avocado Chronicles: 3 the chemical formula
The Skylunch of the American economy
Tall Tree TeleSwissies
Avocado Chronicles: 4 avotoast
Singout at the CA chorale
Avocado Chronicles: 5 California’s iconic food
I do like a bit of cowboy butter to my meat
Avocado Chronicles: 6 on the beach
Choosing the words
The artist Tove Jansson
Penguins at the sushi bar
The boys of Boris Beauville
Oh that’s good
A note for Terry Kiser
The C.L. Baker Award
Conventional and creative metaphors
On the lawn
Avocado Chronicles: 7 “eatable only as a salad”
Wary
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/30/ralph-at-the-port-authority/
Locatives, inalienability, and determiner choices
The opossum joke
(posted 8/1)
Understanding the bull
Never go out without a speech balloon
Two diversions
Briefly noted: the disavowal drill
“as cleverer than people as people are than plants”
Legally contested liverwurst
Gloating over them apples
Annals of social learning
Minimal pears
Cheeseburger mouse
Cats in hats
Deux clouseauismes
Contamination by association
Melon eaters of 1937
Il Leopardo di Sparta
Blue and black at the Gamble Garden
Pedaltecture
Theophilus
News for penises: ocean edition
motss.con XXXII in Palo Alto
Sexy Dark Swiss
Annals of phallicity: symbol and simulacrum
Penguins meet and greet
News for penguins: cache and carry
GG on an August morning
Exception-triggered alternation
Revisiting 31: That’s Good / That’s Bad
shaker of salt
Greek eggs and lamb
Revisiting 32: Exception-triggered alternation
Annals of category labels: food from a hole in the ground
with all the fixin’s
79
Dream time: back to school
Come lay your carnal weapons by
bricks ˈnˈ mortar
Annals of error: water canons
Lexical adventures: kinks
More dream linguistics
Cavemen of higher education
Ten to one
Revisiting 33: the ambiguity of the truffle
The news from Nadoland
Big sexy prime birthday gay ice cream
Greetings
Revisiting 34: sing out, Arnold!
Him wear saurian monitor
Giovanni in Ferragamo
BOY Party!
Clavicular knobs
Segregation in the soapy comics
Revisiting 35: the protuberant acromion
The amazing talking pirate
The outrage of a new menu
The hollow
The hurtful dog
Sousa thump
Not demented yet!
Annals of error: how dig he deeps it
Chocolate-covered amidst the statuary
A new address
In the cowboys’ locker room
Present at the creation: the weaponization of sarcasm
Gender notes: transgender fashion models
Gender notes: the pinup push
Musclemen from Mars
Quid pro Joe
The sea eagle
What was We thinking?
Up to the line, and sometimes over
Pat-SU fuck: new visions
A man, his hands, his pants
Penguin aerodynamics
Suit and tie
A rich internal life
Two old cartoon friends
Der Migros-Sprecher Gabriel Zwicky
The existential question
The verb of the American moment
Butch fagginess, take 3
Unaccompanied
Space Candy
Sharing your penguin
The better body butter, with Whipped Shea Butter
Adventures in homomasculinity: the pink jock
Complimentary bread
Heavenly POP
Another Griffithian mantra
Sexual adventure beyond space and time
11k little bears, done in by the Huns
In an Indian pickle
Iscariot
OUTiL: a historical note
Grammar and gardening
High steel Escher
B.Z.P.D.
The caritive
The Potato Fried
Fried pickles with ranch
News at the Miss Albany
Signtax and the Sloppy Joe apostrophe
Annals of burritio
Reaper days
Marc-Olivier Zwicky
Bears in the woods
Gaysper
Another BYOB
Ruthie plays with Joe
For all the saints
The Russian sardines are coming!
Butch cooks with a little butch truck
The lizard on the 101
Revisiting 36: Lafayette on tour
Comedic NomConjObj
The chimera of Faneuil Hall
Chart pie
Revisiting 37: pie charts
Toadsuck catfish
A hell of a queen
Shoe-high pie
HardSoft
A regular festival of ambiguity
Here’s to adorable Gina
Muscle Milk
On the rubber fowl beat
NOOKY at Poundland
Him, 55 years ago
Revisiting 38: More male beauty
Annals of art: Thiebaud’s Thanksgiving turkey
Annals of art: statues of the iron prince
Dancing against homophobia
At the onomatomania dinette
Thanksgiving sacks of cement
All thanks to HomoEros
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Three comic rabbits for December
Edward Winter
NO PENGUINS
The signs of speechlessness
A syncretic religious holiday
The university quilt
The linguistics quilt
Two actor POP days
Revisiting 39: penis fish on California beaches
Xmas beefcake for a good cause
The images quilt
More pin-up boys
All I want for XXXmas
Adapted for Christmas use
Zeitgeisty
Pareidolia, they control ya
Hung with care
Revisiting 40: Bird X
The first two days of Christmas
Holimanteaus and restaumanteaus
The time of mildly debasing yourself
The year in spam
Usage notes from the kitchen
Zwicky with a beat
Briefly noted: the terror face emoji
Back to the swamp
The penguinocalypse
It’s a tree! It’s a song!
Interpretive services
Yo Day 1: King/Saint Melchior
Yo Day 2: OY/YO at Stanford
Yo Day 3: Side-eye at the circuit party
There was a singer had a dog
Boy oh Boyu!
Briefly noted: NAILS
Beach bare
The lure of Zip’s
Just one peanut
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/14/revisiting-41-mr-peanut-seeks-professional-help/
Cartoonists at leisure
At the rim of the Mournful Valley, singing
Amado Spears and his husband, fulfilled by Peter
An infestation
Rent Spikes / Stoke Dread / By the Sea
Meat on the Beach
It’s a metaphor, son!
A squirrel in the hand
Three little digits
This isn’t hospitality, this is animosity
Predicative / locational
Humongous tops Adonis
Roses now, or roses later
Medical news not for penises
Identify that potato
Revisiting 41: roses for remembrance
Early February herbivores
Revisiting 42: stalked by a giant anthropomorphic squirrel
Another Super Bowl Sunday
The missing
Verbizing on the lam
I made some art
haram / treyf
As a Business Professional, …
The Dread Pirate Swisserhand
The BSDR files
The rose parade
Basil Ratburn
Lincoln Darwin Valentine Day
Socka Hitsch
Revisiting 43: the Socka Hitsch nominal on the rural Swiss roadside
Preference labels and little pockets
Saluting the presidents
Briefly noted: sconge
Trough Pride
love nest
Warren swings (like a gecko tail do)
Magical Mystery Crotch Rocketman
While you’re up
Eel-eater and his kind
Ho, ho, the three of clubs
Timothy and Agrimony
Golden jubilee
A priest, a rabbit, and a minister
Where your personalities go when you’re having sex
A clean t-room is a *happy* t-room
Guy gear
In the political news: catalectic trochaic tetrameter
Morning tum
Write about what you know
In purple hexadecimal
Avant l’orgie
Tragedies of the pandemic
Where is the fishmonger?
There’s a page about it
Double damask
Spanish fetish all over the guy
Schwinger outet sich als schwul
Higashi Day cartoon 1: grim Bliss surprise
Higashi Day cartoon 2: the stigma of striphood
A diverse holiday
Higashi Day cartoon 4: tending the stone
Higashi Day cartoon 5: hoods and newts
Bearfly boy
Corónsyphùs: Strength Through Biochemistry
Higashi Day cartoon 6: Pi Day cartoon understanding
Jazzing Goes to College
Childish reanalyses
Buzz me, baby
Golcorona
coronteaus
Mourning Son
On Vadim Temkin’s surname
Mexican dicks with super-spiny nipples
The predictable blend error
Three men
Chez Le Fourmilier II
Reading faces
St. Martin des Poires
The smoulder
Annals of sexual slang: peacocks
Astride the Jockstrap Trail
Stanko Day?
The triune Emperor of the Swamp: a muskrat, a fox, and a bear
Keep lettin’ him snooze
Clouds of glory
The Desert Island Psychiatrist
Alex’s Locker Room
It’s … it’s … it’s …
Messin’ with words
1879
Martin Van Buren, feeding nachos to a hyperactive squirrel
Easter eggs 2020.1: Mussorgsky chicken with crocuses
Easter eggs 2020.2: The homoerotic egg hunt
The 5,000 Garlic Fingers of PEI
What’s on YOUR shelf?
The labors of Corónsyphùs
The Grim Mouser
Quick shot: the SGT penguin doodle
Quick shot: a job title
Quick shot: no creme for Godzilla
Tod und Verklärung
See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes
Quick shot: return to 24th St.
The therapist is in French
The wolves of Rome (and Venice)
Two cartoons for late April
A pandemic meta-cartoon
The rainbow penguin of regard
News for penguins: hop on lovepop
Crochet me a word
Magritte by Banksy
Joe and the cucumber sandwiches
Trois lapins pour le premier mai
This is a pipe
Morning name: Bene Gesserit
Our reclusive pangolinists
Play me, Sam
With spear, shield, robe, and wreath
Minnesota hotdish
Thrifty, Brave, Clean, & Flammable
The Book of Norman
Annals of advertising: the new normal for noses
Conceptually artistic dicks
The goblet with the hobbit has the wine that is fine
Urs on drums
Edgar Allan Wrench
Bridge troll
Division of labor
Title bout
The things they touched
The toroids of York
Minimalist, and sometimes anti-bacterial
Balloon quotes
Bro Buddies
Knight bibs
The shoe in the toilet
The Age of Anxiety
The ceramic grocery store
Zippy for President
Pandemic gifts
Happy Memorial Day
title: Happy Memorial Day
Masturbation May finale: the naked brownies
Force Cor
The death of images
Aradesque?
Cereal adjectives
The flying fickle finger of foam
The voice of authority
Scatological advice
Gender presentations in Oz
I see London, I see France, I see Batman’s underpants
Death trap
You’re a linguist; where’s your tongue?
murals
tribute time
Pride faces
To Serve Man
The June flora and fauna report
Higashi Day cartoon 3: sentence-initial anymore
South Cackalacky
If a man does it, …
Bad Chico
Wayfaring musicians
Roll my log for Pride
Milk Duds with duck sauce chez Zippy
Muss es sein?
Annals of the AIC: the African American vote
Ruthie tips cows
Pavlov’s novelist
Using poetry in a street fight
Smearing and taunting
Exulting in Pride
Flowers and a watch
Duolingo’s Latin cheese
Ephebe with a big package
Gay hedgehog
Raw, firm, and tasty
For Alan Turing
Annals of ambiguity: I feel like making it rough for Schrödinger
David Stampe
Meet the Jays
Bark if you’re Swiss
Spilled his seed on the ground
A hose in your pocket
Learn to Drawl
Variability: juncos
Nighthawks in a time of coronavirus
Pretty, and sometimes protuberant, in pink
Budgies on the roadside
Suicidal cats
Navy flamingos and roseate spoonbills
That 70s style
Midnight Tropics
The teddy bears’ drink
Hiding homosexuality: JCL
Hot wings on a paper plate
Hot wings on a paper plate II
Turkish turquoise
CORN/BEEF
His banana Ana and his avocados Arnold
At the Paleo Cafe
quiescent and deliquescent
Buttocks display
The art of the buttocks
Buttocks III: (mainstream) art, male art, porn
Buttocks IV: cake(s) and tail
Zipfixation
Birdland
Please don’t eat the flooring
Gay couple in Pouchland
But is it art? Two cartoon takes
Further adventures in Pouchland
Gay Highander
Fear of furniture
The Pierogi Western
A Byzantine bulge and Byzantine buttocks
Eat me
The Chinese squeaky-pen dog
Before or after?
Who were those masked penguins?
Call it by its name
gentoo
Portrait of a man: the head and bare torso image
The measure of a man: HTC
Donut alliteration
Chaka Khan and post-Freudian psychoanalytic thought
In Pouchland, where body size is irrelevant
Switzerland at your service
Nuancy Nancy
The best show I can do
Hairy ice
The art of everyday objects
Surrogates
Towards the high end of the hardness scale
Caterpillars spinning platters
Cucumber soup
More cucumber soups
Thighland
Flies met cute
August flora and fauna
Zippy philaconfusion
The pleasures of role reversal
Double scoop in the heat of summer
Mansex positions: spitroasting
Two whimsical Bizarros
One more book
Christopher Robin Hood
Spontaneous erections
empathetic
Let them eat cake
Are you 79½ or 80?
Name that tune
The three Ds: debased, degraded, and decadent
peacocking
The horse on Seventh Avenue
Hard-cruisin’ Daddy
Moments of charm
New Yorker 8/24/20
A desirable body
Creature log in the smoke times
Little brown birds
Paukenmesse
The Connecticut mystery structure
John Klamik
A song for our times
Hola Queridx
Daniel Goddard
Take me, please
tantrum
The police
Synonyphilia
The brokini
The soup fly
Onomatopoeia and program music
wingman, winger
Take me, please (supine version)
Last-naming professors
candy-ass faggots
Working men 2020
The rainbow party dog
More for the birds
Celebratory day
The post-celebratory day
Le Male, the men’s fragrance
cherchez la femme
Forget the fly, go for the hole
Crossed folk stories
Red Löbster Cult
diaphoretic
More presents
The croup
Hard-core gendering
Mid-autumn memento mori for the times
All they will call you will be “escapees”
Tom of Finland at 100
Cocktail music
Modern still lifes: Darren Jones
Waiting for my man
Caillebotte’s garden
Born on the same day
Marrow among the courgettes
Out of the water and back again
The mystery scribble
Annals of remarkable commerce
gone to seed
The penis-anus nexus
A visit with Skyy Knox
Mushroom days
The Kentucky lawyer
Still life grotesques
Latinx
Great progress, grave threat
Feeling more one-headed
Vase of Flowers with Donuts
The unbearable lightness of food and drink
The multipurpose elephant
Come a long way, long way still to go
Parallelism, metaphor, chiasmus
The library hookers and booze joke
Minimal still lifes
From the dominance/submission files
Avocado Chronicles: 8: avocado salad
Yoan Capote
Film blanc
Giovanna Garzoni
The No Tell Motel
Breakfast with Francesco Tonelli
straight men’s jeans
Deconstructed hamburgers, exploding in layers
wazoo
Sliced bread
Warren Zwicky, pianist
An offer of the body
The Acting Corps: Chris Mulkey
goon squad goon squad goon squad
goon squad goon squad goon squad
More onomatomania
Homage to Magritte
No offense (intended)
cubeb
The risonym
One more Magritte homage
Another Shih still life
Two woolly mammoths
A tribute to Edward Hopper
One Big Happy mnemonics
Acronymic mnemonics
Paul Newman rises from the sea
Flesh Gordon
The xkcd dialect quiz
The Gauld scientific method
Desert island discs
Unsettling still lifes
Three comforting presents
humongous
Shifting gears
A New Yorker trio
The news for gay penguins
Tico Tico
Louis Mandylor
More comforting presents
Patio report 10/25/20
Every picture tells a story
Cruisy contemptolence
Halloween still lifes
Can I get you a vole or two?
A diversion at the beginning of election week
Stirling Silliphant
Fantasy food
past pluperfect
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