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Banh mi and omakase join the dictionary. What it says about Asian cultural influence.
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Andrea Nguyen was growing up in the 1970s and 80s, banh mi was still an insular Asian...
‘Dictionary of Fine Distinctions’ Review: Subtle Shades of Meaning
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF Do you know the difference between a flat white and a cappuccino? What about a gully and a...
Online slang bible uses ‘grossly offensive’ definition of anti-Semitism
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAnti-Semitism has been on the rise in the UK since the Oct 7 Hams attack on Israel -...
The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via AOL· 8 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
Can English unite a divided America? A Mexican American scholar weighs in
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDifferent groups have made American English their own, says Latino scholar Ilan Stavans in "The...
'Goblin mode' is Oxford's word of the year. What does it mean?
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGoblin mode has been declared by popular vote to be Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. So...
‘They didn’t want an Indian soldier with a turban’: Michael Ondaatje on how he wrote The English...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMichael Ondaatje’s new book, A Year of Last Things, opens with a poem called “Definition”, in which...
R.O. Kwon on Alexander Chee, 'Sister Outsider,' and The Book That Everyone Should Read
Elle via AOL· 1 month agoShelf Life: R.O. KwonPORTRAIT BY Jesse Dittmar / ILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA Welcome to Shelf Life,...
Khloé Kardashian, Tristan Thompson and how to tell if a relationship has become toxic
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoKhloé Kardashian is once more feeling conflicted about Tristan Thompson − and her dilemma is raising...
Why Celeste Ng calls her new novel, 'Our Missing Hearts,' 'scarily real'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCeleste Ng at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in England in 2019. (David Levenson / Getty Images)...