I'm reminded of the time our campus rec center held a Mardi Gras party on the first friday of Lent.

I believe there's lots of evidence that Chaucer was an h-dropper, e.g., "myn homcomynge" and h-dropping was found across most of England by 20th century dialectologists, but I've always thought the "an historic" business was a pedant's trick like the "rules" for broad-a in RP.

therapy or linguistics courses?

Which department is hosting your Mizzou talk?

"Is your velum raised or are you just happy to see me?"

I haven't heard it but I haven't been the Pixburg in years

There were 2 verbs with the root of 'dive' in Old English. One was strong (ablaut) and the other weak ("regular"). The semantic distinction between them was lost and the two verbs collapsed into one with both past tenses survive.

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At least USA PATRIOT Act serves as an example of painful backronymy

Cloroxymorons?

Nailed it!

Is it now pushing ads for travel between New Zealand and Australia?

A student told me today that they used ChatGPT to explain my instructions on an assignment. I had bullet-pointed paragraphs explaining what to do in each of 3 parts of the project, and ChatGPT produced a longer list of bullet points, paraphrasing each sentence.

The author needs to go to HEL (History of the English Language)