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When is a staycation not a staycation?

Posted on March 9, 2022 | 2 comments

We have a paradoxical view of travel and time off in English. As I’ve already noted, we historically associated travel with unpleasantness. And yet we assume that significant time off will be spent away from home. In my latest article for The Week, I look at some of the other lexical paradoxes we have for leisure time:

There’s no vacation from the quirks of English

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Honeymoons and babymoons

Posted on February 13, 2013 | 1 comment

Today my first article for TheWeek.com was published:

Honeymoons, babymoons, and the surprising origin story of
-moon words

I encourage you to read it at theweek.com.

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