http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/follow-up-the-a-word/ A blog mostly about language Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/follow-up-the-a-word/#comment-31347 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:09:39 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11579#comment-31347 [...] a comment on my A-word posting (about Geoff Nunberg’s choice of a book title — The A-Word — that would allow the [...]

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/follow-up-the-a-word/#comment-31162 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:07:33 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11579#comment-31162 [...] in light of the paper’s ostentatious avoidance of the title of the play Cock (reported on here), since pussy and cock both have non-taboo senses that could have allowed their appearance in the [...]

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/follow-up-the-a-word/#comment-31049 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:33:17 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11579#comment-31049 [...] Note that this is on-line. You can find other occurrences of asshole on the paper’s website (in reviews of the 2009 movie Asshole, for instance), but in general on its print pages the paper avoids both the word and the ostentatious avoidance A-word (see here). [...]

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