Salon Des Geeks

I was reading this blog entry from Dick Cavett about Palin’s abuse of language:

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

It mostly made me feel ill, but I really liked the postscript, which introduced me to the word `Lagniappe’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe

Fun!

I thought you grammar mavens might like an exercise:

http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/red-pencils-ready/

Probably too easy for y’all, but I like the notion of using specific examples from the Times’ own pages.