linguistics fashionable?

[Darla Wells]

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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