Corey Frost is a Montreal writer working on his Ph.D. in spoken word in New York. Frost's CD-rom, Bits World: Exciting Version, will be released this year by Wired on Words. "Being With Americans" in Geist 48 is an excerpt from My Own Devices, published by conundrum press.
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ADVICE FOR THE LIT-LORN Why doesn’t anyone in North America say barmy for balmy? According to my research, Barmy came first and still enjoys a jolly life. But most North American dictionaries don’t even mention the earlier Scots barmy. —Simon McGavin, Cyberspace |