Archive for Linguistics in the comics
Penultimate
Sometimes more is less. In Frazz for 6/6/2011, Caulfield is frustrated that Mrs. Olsen is among those who think that the first syllable of penultimate is some kind of emphatic particle:
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Don't try this at home
Following up on my posts about locative denominal verbs, yesterday's SMBC: 
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Morphophonetic aesthetics
At Non Sequitur, for the past few days, Danae has been bingeing on "words that are fun to say out loud, and when you say them over and over, they get to sound even funnier":
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T-Rex has a new idea
The latest Dinosaur Comics:
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Bonferroni rules
The most recent xkcd illustrates the problem of multiple comparisons:
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