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Art Behind the Meme: Two Comical Portraits of a Serious English Scholar
Artnet News· 12 hours agoBack in late 18th-century London, Samuel Johnson was known for many things. Nowadays, however,...
Spy x Family: Yor Forger's Name Pun, Explained
Game Rant· 28 minutes agoSpy x Family is available to watch on Crunchyroll. Tatsuya Endō's Spy x Family is one of the most popular anime and manga titles of the current age, and...
A Word, Please: You're free to peruse this commentary in every sense of the word
Los Angeles Times· 6 days ago“Peruse,” Vizetelly argued, means “to read with care and attention … to examine with critical care...
R.O. Kwon on Alexander Chee, 'Sister Outsider,' and The Book That Everyone Should Read
Elle via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThat’s enough now.” ...I last bought: Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey is as unforgettable as...
Opinion: It’s like, literally, amazing | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 4 days agoNow I'm certainly not a grammar Nazi or a word nerd, but young people out there really need to focus...
In a word: A last drink with words at the bar
The Lewiston Sun Journal· 2 days agoToday we belly up to the bar with our word friends one last time in this third and final column on tavern-hopping figures of speech. 2. A mixed metaphor...
Reynolds Hutchins: The choice of words
The Daily Progress· 6 days agoThe book, specifically its chapter “The Choice of Words,” is chock full of gems like this. To this over-educated, under-employed, trend-obsessed,...
A Word Please
The World· 7 days ago“Myself” is a reflexive pronoun, part of a small word club that comprises only “yourself,” “herself,” “ourselves” and others ending in “self.”...
Whale songs have features of language, but whales may not be speaking
Ars Technica· 5 days agoWhales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi...
