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Storytime: Finding just the right words
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoI know I’m not for everyone. I am not a wordsmith who’s known for a vocabulary that requires a dictionary to pull in readers. When I write, I tend to...
National Doughnut (or Donut) Day: Which spelling is right? Dictionaries have an answer.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoWebster believed in "phonetic-based spelling reform," modifying a traditional spelling based on how a word sounds. The "donut" variant pops up in text dating back to the mid-20th century, according ...
‘Can’t Let the Gang Know I FW This,’ ‘Bop,’‘Hagmaxxer,’ and more: 5 new slang words from TikTok,...
The Daily Dot· 2 days agoThis year alone, Dictionary.com added an impressive 1,700 new phrases, including “mid,” “bussin’,”...
Does biweekly mean twice a week or twice a month?
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoYou're not alone in being confused about whether biweekly means twice a week or every other week. Here's what the dictionary and experts say about...
Skibidi, gyatt and Ohio: Learn the meaning, origin behind Gen Alpha's slang
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoAccounted for earliest in 2021, YourRAGE, who has more than 1.68 million subscribers, began saying,...
Real vs. Artificial: The Top Three Reasons Why AI Can’t Replace a Real-Life Attorney | JD Supra
JD Supra· 1 day agoA good indicator of this level of inquiry is the fact that “hallucinate” was selected as 2023 word of the year by the Cambridge Dictionary and Dictionary
Review | Paying tribute to the writer who got us all saying ‘Kafkaesque’
Washington Post· 1 day agoFranz Kafka died on June 3, 1924, at the age of 40. Just think of the first sentence of “The Trial”:...
Who is God? | Sampson Independent
Sampson Independent· 57 minutes agoHave you read what God said in Isaiah 45:5-6? God said, “I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou...
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick share made-up words while playing 'Couple's Dictionary' trend
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 3 days agoKevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, like many couples, speak in their own language. The Hollywood power...
Illustrated dictionaries published for 3 endangered Alaska Native languages
Alaska News Source· 3 days agoThe Sealaska Heritage Institute recently published a new series of illustrated dictionaries to help...