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Playground Classics
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren Iona and Peter Opie New York Review Books, 2000 (orig. 1959) 0940322692 A remarkable study of the oral folklore of kids, some of which has been passed on for...
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American colloquialisms I plan to add to my vocabulary. (Note these sound uniquely and inadvertantly dopey in a New Zealand accent, enough to make any nearby American laugh so hard their soda comes out...
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Ukuleles of the Silver Screen
The Jerk Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters sing “Tonight You Belong to Me,” on the beach. Lovely song, though Martin makes only the vaguest attempt to suggest he’s actually playing. A bonus on the...
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How To Stop Buying Books
I’ve been a member of the book trading site Bookmooch since not long after its inception, in August 2006. In that time, I’ve mailed off 82 books I no longer wanted, and received 119 in return. That...
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