Barbara Wallraff, who has regular features in the Atlantic Monthly (now -- probably for a long time, but I can't keep it in my head-- called The Atlantic), pleases me to no end with her investigations into words and their meanings. Here is a link to a little bit of information about her and some archived material from The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/barbara_wallraff
Here is a link to a recent Word Court exploration into the expression "cut to the chase":
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200804/word-court
And a recent issue's Word Fugitives:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/word-fugitives
Enjoy these, all my word-loving friends!
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