Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
Language Log January 31, 2007 Roger Shuy (“-ic“) is not the only one who’s been talking about the president’s missing morpheme. At the start of Maura Reynolds’ article “The ‘Democrat majority’ is still the talk of the capital” in the Los Angeles Times, 1/30/2007, she asks: Will President Bush put the “-ic” back in “Democratic”? […]
MoreBy The Associated Press Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 Pipeline explosion near San Francisco highlights dangers of gas infrastructure. The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there. Utilities have been […]
MoreService members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: US Army SPC Ryan J Grady, 25, Bristow, OK US Air Force Capt David A Wisniewski, 31, Moville, IA US Army SGT Louis R Fastuca, 24, West Chester, PA US Army SPC Clayton D McGarrah, 20, Harrison, AR US Army PFC David Jefferson, 23, Philadelphia, PA US Army […]
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