The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
I had friends split over whether sounding white was a sellout and whether sounding black was playing into a racial stereotype.
Kory Stamper • Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
there was a short-lived fad in the early nineteenth century for intentional misspellings.
Kory Stamper • Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Taste is about discovery, having interest in things, and making a lot of mistakes. It’s about trying to find the authentic set of choices that both reflect your own background, but also the choices and discoveries that you have made consciously and deliberately. It's always changing and it's also always in reflection of what everyone else is doing ... See more