April 7, 2021

The End of an Era, or the Return to an Earlier One?

There is a latent fingerprint being revealed across this country in the sparsely populated Red Counties.  Nearly all these areas were claimed by settlers both before and after the Homestead Act. That baseline condition back then was a solitary l...

June 10, 2015

What's with this 'beta-lilt'?

Over the last several decades, there have been a number of poor speaking habits developed that eventually get ridiculed out of common use.  “Like” and “ya know” certainly have had their time in the limelight.  I reca...