Pie charts and bar graphs

Yesterday's Frazz: Caulfield's joke illustrates several interesting linguistic points. (1) First, his choice to compound "pie" with "chart"  and "bar" with "graph" is irrelevant to the joke, but it does align with the statistics of usage (and also probably reflects the cartoonist's idea about the assignment that Caulfield was given).  Since the opposite associations are […]