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New on the blog: @Fritinancy on “bitchin’,” which rode a wave of surfer slang to become a widespread adjective, interjection , and brand name. stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/tha…

"Bumbaclart" is a pronunciation spelling (for non-rhotic speakers) of Jamaican patois "bomboclaat"/"bumbaclot." See @sesquiotic's @stronglang post for background on the term. stronglang.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/wha…

@barrypopik @doctorow Our #woty2023 wrap-up credits your findings — thanks! stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the…

@stronglang "Enshittification" was the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. Popularized by @doctorow in December 2022, but not first used at this time, as this #enshittification thread shows. #shit #WOTY2023

The sweary WotYs stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the… via @stronglang

And the American Dialect Society’s “Word of the Year” is… Enshittification — a “sadly apt” term, as the lexicographer @bgzimmer put it, for when an online platform goes to shit Ahem. americandialect.org/2023-word-of-t…

It's time for the annual @stronglang Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing! Featuring @doctorow @jessearmstrong1 @cordjefferson @jfreewright @TerryMatalas @rebecca_roache @JessZafarris @BodyForWife @oliviarodrigo @offspring @JasmineForUS @chrissyteigen stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/the…

Happy new year, mofos! Time for our year-end tradition: the annual Ticker Awards for swearing, emceed as always by @bgzimmer. stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/the…

Need a replacement PDQ? stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/nee…

New on the blog: Asterisks for the f*n of it stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/ast…

What's a word that is not a curse word, that is super fun to say like it's a curse word?

Let the Congressional Record show that the gentlelady from Texas said “in the shitter.”

We covered similar ground in one of our earliest posts. stronglang.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/a-p…

"Piss poor" and "not a pot to piss in."

“If you don't know what AF means, you're SOL." - @petersagal on @waitwait

.@velocitytweets: How to use swear words in your fucking marketing velocitypartners.com/blog/how-to-us…

“Words like squirt and scum don’t have quite the speed. We already know that skeet seems like a good word for shooting, and, well…”

Our post on “enshittification.” stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/ens…

.@doctorow coined “enshittification” earlier this year. Now he's coined a brand extension: “enshitternet.” doctorow.medium.com/podcasting-ens…

.@bgzimmer wrote for @LanguageLog about obscenicons from 1901: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=41943