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900-6: Sic!

• Perpetuity isn’t what it used to be, Rob Bernstein discovered on reading an advertising email: “Buy a one year perpetual license for Iron Speed Designer and receive an extra year of updates and support for free!”

• Lee Schlesinger was amused by a headline in the Boston Globe of 9 October: “Police detonate ordinance handed over by Cohasett resident”. Not just breaking the law but pulverising it.

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Michael Quinion’s books

Average rating: 3.44 · 290 ratings · 48 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Port Out, Starboard Home 3.31 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most Asked Questions About Language 3.54 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of our Vanishing Vocabulary 3.52 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ologies and Isms: A Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ballyhoo, buckaroo and spuds liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Port Out, Starboard Home by Michael Quinion (1-Sep-2005) Mass Market Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ologies and Isms: A Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings (Oxford Paperback Reference) Paperback – November 17, 2005 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called the anti-beauty quark. Could it be that ugly people now have something tangible to blame?”
― Michael Quinion

tags: cern, large-hadron-collider, ugliness

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