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Historic writer's desk could be 'knackered' old fake
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoExcept, in a strange twist, its owner is now uncertain whether it really is the desk of the famous 18th Century dictionary author. It's been suggested...
"Wordle" #1,092 hints, clues and answer for Saturday, June 15 puzzle
Newsweek· 1 day agoIf your brain has switched off this weekend, but you still want to solve Saturday's Wordle puzzle,...
Opinion | The Supreme Court’s bump stock ruling values dictionaries over human lives
Washington Post· 1 day agoConservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court have decided that more Americans must die in mass shootings...
Dictionary brings dying Beijing slang back to life
Mountain View Telegraph· 2 days agoThe New Beijing Dialect Dictionary, which includes 10,200 entries, is the first of its kind published since Xu Shirong's Beijing Local Dialect Dictionary
The Real Scandal at the Supreme Court Is Not Clarence Thomas’ Ethics Form
Slate via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe amount of ink spilled and tape taped since the excellent ProPublica reporting on Thomas’...
Opinion: Supreme Court’s bump stock decision is a huge step backward
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThe Supreme Court’s decision to overrule the Trump-era federal bump stock ban is a display of...
Sonia Sotomayor Points Out How Quickly the Conservative Justices Will Drop Their Stated Principles...
Slate via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe federal definition also encompasses “any part designed or intended” to enable automatic fire,...
Do you know the difference between ‘codger’ and ‘cadger’?
Daily Telegraph· 17 hours agoYou may nonetheless be familiar with Liberman’s many published works on etymology, including the...
Alan Bates, Gordon Brown and Tracey Emin lead King’s birthday honours as more than 1,000 recognised
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 day agoLexicographer Dent, who appears in Countdown’s Dictionary Corner, said she would celebrate her...
What’s in a name? In Ireland, a host of letters that Americans find hard to pronounce - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 2 days agoThe Merriam-Webster account on X, known for snappier and snarkier posts than are usually associated...