MY PROFILE
About Mark Peters
MarkPeters
- Location:
- (USA)
- Joined on:
- 10/08/07
The story thus far:
Mark Peters is a word-lover who has written about language for Mental Floss, Psychology Today, and Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. Mark gets very excited when he discovers words like "ectoplasmgasm," "nincompoopitude," "smasho-crasho," "come-hither-y," and "spokesfembot" in the wild, so he immortalizes them in his Wordlustitude dictionary. Mark also writes a language column for Babble, a magazine for urban parents. In addition to his word-related pursuits, Mark can juggle five balls, but he is regretfully unable to balance a brick on his nose. He lives in Chicago with his rat terrier Monkey, who can run faster than any other dog in Lincoln Park, swear to Zeus.
My Blog
The latest from MarkPeters (2)
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Culture
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Mark Peters on Eggcorns
"Mind-bottling," "jar-dropping," and "lame-man's terms" are all eggcorns—a type of common and somewhat logical language goof named after a misspelling of "acorn." — read more
Contributors: Mark Peters and Kim Scafuro
010: The China Issue - Mar 18 2008
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Culture
2 votes
Mark Peters on the Colbert Suffix
Mark Peters on the Colbert suffix. — read more
Contributors: Mark Peters and Jenny Mörtsell
007: High Tech/Low Tech - Oct 03 2007
Websites
- Wordlustitude
wordlust.blogspot.com/
Hi friends
We've outgrown this 800-pixel wide website and we're moving to new digs.While we pack up our things (i.e. articles and videos and stuff), we're shutting down commenting and new registrations on the current site.
Our new site is up and running at GOOD.is/.
Yours,
GOOD
