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It's not as world-famous as ramen or sushi. But the humble onigiri is soul food in Japan
San Francisco Chronicle· 30 minutes agoThe word “onigiri” became part of the Oxford English Dictionary this year, proof that the humble...
Meet the All-New, 1800-HP, $4.6 Million Bugatti Tourbillon
Road and Track· 3 days agoThe new Bugatti—one of the most anticipated model debuts of 2024—has arrived. Meaning, of course,...
Splaine: Just follow the money in 2024 elections
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoMerriam-Webster Dictionary defines "deja vu" as "the feeling that one has seen or heard something before." It's happening all over again. Just as signs...
Elden Ring scholar makes a dictionary for every name in the RPG, somehow already including Shadow of...
GamesRadar+ via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCredit: FromSoftware An Elden Ring veteran has constructed an ‘Etymology Dictionary’ featuring every...
Dictionary of Eggcorns: words mispelled as other words
Boing Boing· 2 days agoThe Eggcorn Database [via] collects and defines words misheard, mistaken or misspelled as other...
The German who taught England to love itself
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoLike a greedy boy at prep school receiving a cake through the post, my eyes widened whenever I got hold of a new county volume to devour in the Buildings...
Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAfter the atrocities of last October, Israel had a right to defend itself. So much we may concede. But the killing rage it visited upon the innocents of...
‘Fax, No Printer’ May Be Teen Slang Today, But Its Story Dates Back To The 19th Century
Blavity via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThe play-on-word was already in use in the 19th century. “The use of ‘fax’ as a fun phonetic play on...
'Hot-tubbing' and more. New terms in Black’s Law Dictionary
Reuters· 7 days agoThe outcome of a case can hinge on the definition of a word in a contract or statute – but who’s...
Inside the Stephen Sondheim Auction That Stunned Even the Auctioneer
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis was a larger lot. It had about 12 or 13 books in it and it had books that included crossword...