linguistics fashionable?

[Joel S. Berson]

Erard's book is reviewed -- somewhat unfavorably -- by Christine
Kenneally in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review section.

Joel

At 8/21/2007 08:34 PM, Darla Wells wrote:
>Allure Magazine September issue has a blurb on "Bad Words" on page 146 that
>begins, "Linguists estimate..." and continues on to explain what eggcorns,
>disfluencies, Spoonerisms, blends, Mondegreens, and Freudian slips are. They
>are talking about a book by Michael Erard called Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and
>Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean. I found this to be kind of an interesting
>juxtaposition what with Britney Spears on the cover and being on the same page
>as Jessica Simpson's 2 major assets. Fashion and linguistics (lite) makes for
>interesting bedfellows, I guess.
>Darla
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