Language Columns

[Shapiro, Fred]

Ben Zimmer's column in the Boston Globe is devoted to Nathaniel Sharpe's great discoveries on "scalawag":

http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/03/10/the-original-scalawag/fuFLccvsn4b1T6t18WFvxL/story.html

My column in the Yale Alumni Magazine concerns antedating the term "full monty":

http://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3644

Fred Shapiro

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