Language Log - Pails and flounders
I'm calling it now: Language Log post of the year. What editor could resist a taxonomy of errors with four new category labels? Also, Zwicky deserves kudos for attempting to halt the semantic (over)generalization of eggcorn. It turns out that old-fashioned malapropisms can still exist after all.

Wordorigins.org - card sharp / card shark
I've wondered which came first myself. This entry settles the great debate, with some surprising etymological history to boot.

Tenser, said the Tensor
I just rediscovered this blog. It's not always down my alley, but the combination of sci-fi and linguistics makes for some good posts.

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