World Wide Words

[modernwizard]

Michael Quinion, a speaker of British English, writes essays about the origins of unusual words and slang. I followed a link to his site because I wanted to find out the approximate date of one of my favorite adjectives, copacetic. Its age is indeterminate, but I did find many other fascinating tidbits on the site.

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[dollsahoy.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'd forgotten about that site! The "Surprise Me!" search can fill hours of time...

Language Log is my daily linguistigeek reading

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/