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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.

Filed under 'language'

July 2, 2010

"Login" is not a verb

Bookmarked for future reference next time I’m being grumpy about site language. This rubs me up the wrong way like less/fewer confusion. “I gave her my login so she could log in as me.”

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October 22, 2007

TNR Online | What the F***?

Fucking excellent article on swearing. “Swearing raises many other puzzles—linguistic, neurobiological, literary, political.”

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January 17, 2007

bethemedia: Saussure, Predictive Text, Cycling Awake and the word 'Book'

On T9 misspellings of words becoming “slang”. Zonino!

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December 2, 2006

Wordie

“Like Flickr, without the photos”. Make lists of words. Pointless and lovely.

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September 27, 2005

Wikipedia: List of British English words not used in American English

This’ll come in handy as a tool to fend off funny looks when I throw random Britishisms into conversations across here.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.