Tip of My Tongue: Forays in the American Language

, by Smith, Wen

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ISBN: 9780595145850 | 059514585X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/1/2000

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Acknowledgements

xiii

Derailing the One-Track Mind

(4)

Say It Ain't So

(4)

It's Something Like English

(3)

Recalling a Ravenous Beauty

(3)

Off the Gold Standard

(4)

Bard on the Couch

(3)

Taking a Dictionary Out of Mothballs

(3)

Let's Do Lunch

(3)

It's Only Me

(3)

A Rude Awakening

(4)

Murphy's Other Law

(3)

Murder, She Spoke

(4)

Why Bye-Bye Isn't a No-No

(3)

Those Formidable Years

(4)

Scruples in the Fog

(4)

On the Horns

(3)

In Dos Equis Veritas

(4)

No, a Thousand Times No!

(3)

Afflicted to an Old Addiction

(4)

Murder on the Disoriented Express

(3)

Like You Like It

(3)

Give Me Rhetoric!

(3)

Babes in the Words

(3)

Dancing Willy-Nilly

(3)

Hanging Loose About Grammar

(3)

Hanging Loose Again

(3)

In the Shadow of `Jeopardy!'

(4)

Prepositional Humbug

(3)

Shots With a Grammar Wedge

(3)

Layers of Meaning

(3)

Forget It, Polonius!

101

(3)

The Prince and the Proper

104

(3)

Born-again Kamikaze

107

(3)

Two Thorns in a Shoppekeeper's Side

110

(3)

Ballistic Bananas

113

(3)

Phalaropes and Grinches

116

(3)

Mail Bonding

119

(3)

Irish With a Twist

122

(4)

Send Me Your Huddled Parts of Speech

126

(3)

Parameters of Pi in the Sky

129

(3)

My Right to Remain Silent

132

(4)

Why Shakespeare Couldn't Spell

136

(4)

Somewheres Over the Rainbow

140

(3)

Stand By for Nyooz!

143

(4)

Ugh, Ha-ha, and Ah!

147

(3)

Oats, Ivy, and Nirvana

150

(3)

Buckshot Over the Hedge

153

(4)

What's Gnu at the Zoo?

157

(3)

A Dangerous Game

160

(3)

Let's Hear It for Rhetoric

163

(4)

Out in Left Field

167

(3)

A Sarge for All Seasons

170

(3)

My Think Tank Peters Out

173

(4)

Meadow-Forests of the Mind

177

(3)

Maybe It Started With Eden

180

(4)

Pop on Ice

184

(4)

I Go, and She Goes

188

(3)

A Brick Outhouse via Satellite

191

(4)

Harassing the Media Newsfolk

195

(3)

A Farewell to Whom, Sweet Whom

198

(4)

Out of Sync With Pop

202

(3)

Hammered Grammar

205

(3)

Song Sung Blah

208

(4)

Point of Explanation

212

(4)

Busybody Hyphens

216

(4)

Adam and Eve on a Cable Car

220

(4)

Objects in Mirror

224

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Tip of My Tongue: Forays in the American Language

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