I’ll have two “Captains” and an order of Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage, please

It was great to be in a room this morning with three language greats —  Merrill Perlman, Bill Walsh and Ben Zimmer.

You can follow all three on Twitter to see what they’re saying about language issues:  just search for @meperl, Bill’s @TheSlot and @bgzimmer.

And it’s good to know that the experts on language and grammar can seriously discuss all issues from — warning, false range coming — nouns becoming verbs to the proper plural form of the bar drink “Captain on the Porch.”

In fact, they can do it with both a smile and a laugh and a practical answer. (They agreed on Captain on the Porches.)

Ah, the weighty issues we ponder every day!

— Gerri Berendzen

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