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    Up from out of in under for 2009

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    With regard to ‘regarding’ 2009

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    A culchie joins Culch.ie 2009

  • Ireland jargon journalism language language history language news lexicography linguistics links literature nature nature photography newspapers peevology philology phonetics photography plain English poetry prescriptivism punctuation semantics signs slang spelling stories syntax typos usage word choice words writers writing

    Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters 2009

  • Ireland jargon journalism language language history language news lexicography linguistics links literature nature nature photography newspapers peevology philology phonetics photography plain English poetry prescriptivism punctuation semantics signs slang spelling stories syntax typos usage word choice words writers writing

    The love life of pigeons 2009

  • Ireland jargon journalism language language history language news lexicography linguistics links literature nature nature photography newspapers peevology philology phonetics photography plain English poetry prescriptivism punctuation semantics signs slang spelling stories syntax typos usage word choice words writers writing

    “Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood 2009

  • Ireland jargon journalism language language history language news lexicography linguistics links literature nature nature photography newspapers peevology philology phonetics photography plain English poetry prescriptivism punctuation semantics signs slang spelling stories syntax typos usage word choice words writers writing

    On the rampant misuse of quotation marks 2009

  • Ireland jargon journalism language language history language news lexicography linguistics links literature nature nature photography newspapers peevology philology phonetics photography plain English poetry prescriptivism punctuation semantics signs slang spelling stories syntax typos usage word choice words writers writing

    ‘Reality’ and ‘the facts’ 2009

  • So whence the joyless peevology, the empty outrage over nounings, neologisms, and colloquialisms?

    “Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood 2009

  • Ireland jargon journalism language language history language news lexicography linguistics links literature nature nature photography newspapers peevology philology phonetics photography plain English poetry prescriptivism punctuation semantics signs slang spelling stories syntax typos usage word choice words writers writing

    Unnatural ‘preternaturally’, naturally 2009

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  • whichbe commented on the word peevology

    1) the collecting and public airing of language peeves 2) the study of such peevish behavior

    May 12, 2008