"'Argle-bargle' is formed by what's known as rhyming reduplication," linguist Ben Zimmer told The Atlantic Wire. "Reduplication," is when "a word formation process by which some part of a base (a ...

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In his angry dissent to the court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday, Justice Scalia conveyed a specific kind of derision through his use of several colloquial expressions. He ...

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Professor Kyle Graham, a criminal procedure scholar at Santa Clara Law, for some reason decided that the world needed a puppet version of Antonin Scalia saying his now-famous turn-of-phrase, ...

We have Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to thank for plucking "argle-bargle" out of obscurity. Now thanks to Professor Kyle Graham, a Yale-educated criminal procedure scholar at Santa Clara Law, ...

Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent (pdf) in U.S. v. Windsor, the ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, is not subtle in its anger. The conservative Supreme Court jurist refers on page 22, ...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia invoked a curious term in his fierce dissent of Wednesday's ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, calling it a "legalistic argle-bargle," which ...