Jan Freeman on "brokeback"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Jan Freeman's Boston Globe column today, in time for the Oscars, is
about "brokeback". She doesn't take on the various new senses derived
from the movie, but she does a good job dismissing complaints that the
word "should" be "broken-backed".

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/03/05/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it/


--Ben Zimmer

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