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Reading books,Word Nerding, and taking names.

Archive for the category “Soapbox Moment”

What’s in a name, grrrl?

Hymn book? Her book?

women's rights library of congress

Cartoon showing woman asking booksller for her-books, as opposed to hymn-books from Library of Congress

Ovester? Semester?

Legally Blonde Ovester

Enid (from Legally Blonde): So I'm petitioning to have next term be referred to as the winter "ovester".

Potaytohs? Potahtohs?

What’s behind a name and why after all these years are we still having discussions about nomenclature as it pertains to gender integration—especially in the most rapidly evolving arena in our society, technology?

Damned if I know. Although it might just unleash my inner riot grrrl.

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S is for Snooki.

We all know that “S” is for Snooki. But could it be that coincidental that the word “stupid” also starts with “S”?

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, star of Jersey Shore (from MTV.com)

I recently ran across a Huffington Post blog post that claims that the Jersey Shore star just managed to stumble through her first book. Yes. FIRST. BOOK. Was it a book about tanning? Machiavelli’s The Prince?

Nope.

Her first book, it seems, was Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John. I wonder how many fist pumps she gave it?

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