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