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Recent pieces from "Fresh Air" on NPR

A number of my "Fresh Air" pieces are collected in The Way We Talk Now , (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) and in Going Nucular (PublicAffairs, 2004)

"Civility" Wars, 9/12/07

The Regressive Urge (sarcasm and language), 8/16/07

"Indecent" Exposure ("fleeting expletives" and the FCC), 6/14/07

A Wiki's as Good as a Nod 6/5/07)

The Uses of Hypocrisy (the Imus flap), 4/17/07

The Style is the Mag (on Time-style), 3/22/07

The Age of Valentines, 2/14/07

Say You're Sorry (on non-apologies), 1/25/07

The Language of Eve 1/3/07

Word of the Year , 12/13/06

Going Nucular (a controversial mispronunciation), 10/ 2/02

A Millennial Ode ( Words we should toss before 2000 gets here)(1999)







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