linguistics fashionable?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/21/07, Darla Wells <dlw3208 at louisiana.edu> 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.

If anyone would like to see the page in question, I put a scan of it here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004850.html


--Ben Zimmer

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