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After watching his sister try three times to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Sameer Mishra put himself on a mission. “I told my mom I was going to do the bee,” Sameer said. “And if I was going to do it, I was going to win it one day. And I guess it [...]
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Homogenous, Homogeneous
Published May 31st, 2008 in Celebrity, Education, Indiana, Language and People. 5 CommentsI was pointed toward the entry on “Grammar” at Stuff White People Like and saw a link to the Wikipedia on the Oxford Comma, a term I’ve never heard before. Turns out it’s nothing more than the serial comma, the thing that makes the difference between
sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll
and
sex, [...]
The Usefulness of “Baby Daddy”
Published September 4th, 2007 in Language, Music and Parenthood. 12 CommentsSometimes a slang term pops into the cultural sphere that is so useful it crawls under the brainskin, no matter the historical stigma implied. For me this term is “baby daddy.” How else do you describe a relationship between you and a guy with whom you are no longer involved, to whom you [...]
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