Merrill Perlman managed copy desks across the newsroom at the New York Times, where she worked for twenty-five years. Follow her on Twitter at @meperl.
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Noun? Verb? Yes. Adjective? Well …
The DNA of new words
Weathering a climax
Comparatively speaking
Fewer words take up less real estate
Writers are "prone" to use the more familiar word
How “junket” became a bad word
Time to plant some “seeds”
Questioning the questions
Confusion over jibe, jive, gibe, and gybe
