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Here's Why Curse Words Sound the Way They Do
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCredit - Getty Images/iStockphoto A swear word is like a linguistic punch in the nose. Virtually every language and culture has them—and virtually every...
Watch out for the words in Constellation Stage's 'Webster's B!+@#' Jan. 25-Feb. 11
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWords depend on the people who use them. "Webster's B!+@#" is a drama with comedy about letters +...
What the f---: Are people swearing more?
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIf you attended John Mellencamp’s recent show at the IU Auditorium, you heard the word blankety-blank from the stage, loud and clear, several times. As...
Evolution of technology plays into latest Oxford English Dictionary update
Press Association News via AOL· 5 months agoGenerative artificial intelligence, talkboard and dumb phone are among the new technological words...
A Teacher’s List Of Slang Words Banned In Their Class Went Viral, And These 20 People Weighed In...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 4 months ago"I actually think it's refreshing to see a teacher working to level up her students' use of...
Foul-mouthed El Pasoans are still polite and city is budget friendly, surveys say
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEl Paso is once again mentioned in "top cities" lists in some interesting categories. According to...
14 books that have been banned in schools
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe graphic novel "Maus" by Art Spiegelman was banned by a school board in Tennessee.Maro Siranosians/AFP/Getty Images Classic books and contemporary...
Opinion: I taught English in Iowa. Here's what I know about 'controversial' books.
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchmen?" — the Roman poet Juvenal "Wherever...
Banned Book Week: Top banned books of 2022
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBook bans are nothing new. According to Harvard University, the first book ban in the United States took place in 1637 in Massachusetts. "New English...
Forget Grammarly! Google Search now lets you check your grammar with this easy trick
LaptopMag via Yahoo News· 10 months agoYou can now check for grammatical errors in English directly through the search bar on Google's...
