The Word Nerds

If you look up at the header of this site, you will see a new link to “Forum.”
The long-promised phpBB forum has been installed and configured, and awaits your input. Please feel free to register and post to your heart’s content.
This is not something to use instead of the comment threads on this blog site, […]

Well, folks, as you can see, the blog has moved.
Yes, the navigation sidebar is incredibly ugly. My main concern this week has been to make sure the podcast feed and blog page were all functioning. They seem to be.
I will try to clean up the sidebar and links in the next several days, as soon […]

We just learned from Apple Computer that The Word Nerds will be featured as a “splash” on the front page of the iTunes Music Store for about a week.
We are very happy to have this extra promotional push by Apple, and we expect this will mean a lot of new listeners and members of the […]

The Word Nerds will be making some changes to our blog setup sometime in the next week. (This means sometime between May 9 and May 16.)
While we will continue to have our podcast audio files hosted by our favorite podcast hosting company, Liberated Syndication, we will be moving the blog and feed portion of the […]

Hearing Howard Chang talk about “homophone creep” (a term that I like very much) made me think of the problem that I encounter every year when reading Hamlet. At one point in the play, either Rosencranz or Guildenstern uses the expression “niggard of question…” Invariably, the student who is reading that part pronounces the word […]