About wugs (and me)

The correct answer is "wugs".  The wug test is administered by linguists to determine if a person is able to pluralize a new word correctly.  If you said, "wugs", you're a-okey!  If you didn't, you might want to brush up on your English plurals.

The wug test was developed by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958 during a pretty awesome linguistics experiment testing the language development of children learning English.  In short, she wanted to see if the children knew the basic rule of regular pluralization (adding /s/, /z/, or /ez/, depending on the final sound of the word) and could apply this rule to new words.  The wug test has been used by many linguists in many other experiments.  It is also the theme of many nerdy jokes; the wug has become a mascot, of sorts, for the field of linguistics.

I am off in search of wugs.  Well, sort of.  I'm a linguist entering the field of speech therapy (both of these fields test for plurals and both fields analyze language development, hence the wug theme).  I'm also a Marylander entering the land of.... Texas.

So welcome to this blog, where I will probably write about weird linguistics-y things, odd anecdotes, Jesus, elephants, good books, and food.  And, of course, Texas.

Please observe the following warning:

Consider yourself warned.

Oh!  And if you feel like reading about my recent adventures in the Dominican Republic, see my other blog:  Adventures in Santo Domingo, Franciscan style

And if you feel like reading about my less-recent adventures in Ghana, see my other other blog:  Adventures of an Oburoni

Thank you, dear readers, for sharing in my adventures!