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A disturbifying trend in namifying

Posted in Affixed Names, Bad Names, Company Names, Grammar, Startup Names on February 10th, 2011 8 Comments »

The Name Inspector has been thinkifying about naming fads lately. For example, there was that post a while back about names ending with the word vine. One trend that naggifies at him every day, though, is the gratuitous use of the suffix -ify. This one is bound to worsify before it gets bett…OK, he’s done [...]

Dear New York Times: Nobody’s a perfect

Posted in Bad Linguistics, Grammar, Words on July 23rd, 2008 7 Comments »

The Name Inspector is usually too busy inspecting names to scold people about other linguistic matters. But in this case he can no longer stand to remain silent. He emailed William Safire about an error that appeared in his column On Language way back in April. He’s been waiting for a public outcry, rowdy demonstrations [...]