"Um ..." [Was: linguistics fashionable?]

[Joel S. Berson]

"Um ...". by Michael Erard, is again reviewed in the New York Times,
today by William Grimes -- and again, somewhat unfavorably.

Joel

At 8/21/2007 11:00 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net>
>Subject: Re: [ADS-L] linguistics fashionable?
>In-Reply-To: <20070822001937.M40023 at louisiana.edu>
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><20070822001937.M40023 at louisiana.edu>
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>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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