I mean, languages evolve and people work out ways to get along with what they have and all that. But still thô, I do kind of wish that English and Spanish had both kept their circumflex accents.

Grand, so now it turns out that the immediate work of collecting material for my research project involves using Internet search tools to comb a 19th century magazines for a bunch of old racist jokes.

Hey yall, I can’t make the Virginia or Carolina SFL Regional Conferences this Fall because of a prior commitment to speak at the Oklahoma RCs. Know anyone in the mid-South who might be interested in staffing a left-wing market anarchist (ALL, or C4SS, or whatever alphabet soup you prefer) book table on November 14?

Is “Caveat Emptor” a phrase in the English language (Y/N)? State reasons for your answer.

To-day: Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. Prologue and Chapter 1. (x-post: http://ift.tt/1NPk42N)

To-day: Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. Prologue and Chapter 1. (x-post: http://ift.tt/1NPk42N)

Lays “Southern Biscuits and Gravy” potato chips: pretty much OK. Does kind of taste like a white country gravy.* If you like biscuits and gravy it has some value as a novelty item. If you like sour cream & onion chips, you’ll probably like these too. * However, happily, no meat products used in the flavoring. They do use a lot of dairy ingredients.

Is “adios” a word in the English language (Y/N)? State reasons for your answer.