SmartMouth
commentaries on the way we communicate with one another in society and business, and what the trends in spoken idiom, writing, and "emoticon-ometrics" might tell us about how we think.

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September 2022
- Sep 20, 2022 'Padding' Up Schitt’s Creek: How Dirty Words Get Clean
July 2022
- Jul 20, 2022 In Black and White: How Words Looked Before the Digital World Turned Them Gray
May 2021
- May 13, 2021 ‘Hey, Sue.’ A Brief History of the Way We Greet One Another
June 2020
- Jun 19, 2020 Fashion Redress: How a Clothes Horse Shelters in Her Closet
December 2019
- Dec 19, 2019 POW!!! A Bold Case for Adding New Forms of Expressive Punctuation to Our Written Language
September 2018
- Sep 7, 2018 Living by Whose Rules? How ‘User Error’ Propels Language Forward
May 2018
- May 2, 2018 Are you a Satisfying Customer? What Uber Passenger Ratings May Portend for All of Us Who Consume
March 2018
- Mar 20, 2018 23andMe -- or Who? How DNA Testing Challenges Cultural Identity
February 2018
- Feb 9, 2018 The 'ize' Have It: In Defense of Incentivize, Socialize, and Now…Calendarize
January 2018
- Jan 31, 2018 First Outing