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Richard’s latest book
American History for Everyone
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Richard’s revealing interview in the
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“Columnist Extraordinaire” — The New Yorker
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Ben Duke, of Philadelphia, has sent me a photograph of the front of a store in Brierly Hall, England. The sign reads: Goodwyns Furniture Ltd. SOFA’S CHAIR’S RECLINER’S BED’S Ben calls this signage “The Four Aprostrophe’s of the Apocalypse” and informs me that “the establishment is now permanently closed, so punctuation matters!” I call such absurd punctuation “prepostrophes.” Hey, there’s
Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.
