Kory Stamper

okay, okay: I'll resurrect my blog and write something about the Pantone Color of the Year, _fine_.

<ka-ching> Thank you for your remittance.

Well now you _have_ to pay the tax, c'mon.

A merit award that reads: CONGRATULATIONS Certificate awarded to: KORY for: POSTING TO THE GROUP CHAT INSTEAD OF THE INTERNET Signed: Common Decency Dated: Today <katya_voice.wav> I'm number one in self-control. </katya_voice.wav>

The way I _ran_ to see if the English verb "zhuzh" was a borrowing. (It's not, womp womp.)

Today only, donations to @refugees.org will be matched.

When you donate at PaperAirplane.pub, you get the debut issue of Paper Airplane, putting us one step closer to achieving our dual goal of reaching 250 readers and raising $10,000 for refugees, and putting you in rare quadruple-win territory.

Kory Stamper: Whole-assing dictionary books since 2017.

A CERTIFIED MOOD. Could you tell I was irritated by yet another author claiming to "discover" something in a company archive when I wrote that?

AS IS RIGHT AND GOOD

I have!! So cool.

The brulee! The plate!

Big men, strong men! Doing a little soft-shoe and bellowing "Retrumplican, Trumprumplican," the most beautiful dancing, the most beautiful dancing men in the world.

No, Jon, let's riff on this. I bet we can, er, improve it:

Teepublican
Trumpican
Republirump
Rumpican
Retrumpican
Rumpitrumpican

Many perished in the Bamboo Wars.

I managed to keep my original one from the '80s going by swapping out bad components with RadioShack transistors and capacitors. It finally ran out of lives about 4 years ago, and I still miss it every morning.

And for the record, since this is a thing you have to say now: no AI was used for this book--not for the art, not for the research, not for the words. All the art was hand-drawn by artists or subjects of the book; all the thoughts came from my li'l brain; all the typos are 100% handcrafted by moi.

Here to meet all your psycholinguistic and trash panda needs. 🫡

A tightly cropped picture of one of the pages of my book, which shows what I'm calling the "triangle of meaning": at the top, a thought bubble with the word "raccoon" in it; on the right bottom, the word "Raccoon" in quotes, and on the left bottom, a line drawing of a raccoon exiting the frame and giving the reader side-eye.

I commissioned an artist to draw a raccoon for my latest book, and finally got to show them the composed page with their illustration on it. 🤩 (It was great, their reaction was perfect, 10/10, can recommend.)

Joshua, I knoooow! The cover and book design is <chefs_kiss.gif>.

It does have some very pretty color plates in it, and I will buy you dinner, too!

Now that I've read this book:

You should be preordering the hell out of it.

It's huge fun, and hugely informative. (And huge fun.)

Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba

Ugh, I'm so sorry. It's not as though the extra stress is good for rest and recovery! (I hope there is no fuckery within 700 miles of your insurance claims.)

Just bananas. And what happens when insurance decides to stop paying for it because it's expensive? It's a biologic, you can't just switch to generic!

(It me, I was the lady at the low-paying job trying not to angry-cry in the company phone booth.)

Anyway, be kind to the people around you, who may have to do things like call their doctors on their shift break at their low-paying job and beg the office to fix a billing code so the billion-dollar company they pay to cover healthcare expenses will agree to pay for their child's $300 inhalers.

NOW: we're fortunate. I have good health insurance through my job. We had already met our deductible for the year. Our policy has a low out-of-pocket maximum. My job also offers optional accident insurance to cover some bills that insurance won't pay.

We weren't always fortunate, though.

So, nu: Herr Maestro recently broke his neck. (He's home, no surgery, recovery going well, DON'T PANIC.) I made an offhand comment to him that, best guess, the ER visit and two-day hospital stay would cost around $100k. He was flabbergasted. No way.

I just checked the claims online. $93k so far.

The Wreak of the Edmund Anti-Christian Bigotry.

Megan, the ughs I ughed.