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Beyoncé added to French dictionary
WSB-TV 2 Atlanta· 6 days agoBeyoncé may have already dominated R&B, pop and country music, but now she’s taking over the French language. Queen Bey is being added to the French ...
Fischer: Real estate terms to help you up your Scrabble game
Standard-Examiner· 7 days agoThis is a term used to describe a type of English considered to be the norm for educated speakers....
Mother Wit on Mother’s Day | New Orleans' Multicultural News Source | The Louisiana Weekly
Louisiana Weekly· 4 days agoWhat are you planning for Mother’s Day? Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate and honor the diverse array of women who become birth mothers, adoptive mothers, grandmothers taking on the role of ...
A Word, Please: Do yourself a favor and read this primer on reflexive pronouns
Los Angeles Times· 2 days ago“Myself” is a reflexive pronoun, part of a small word club that comprises only “yourself,”...
High School Student Allegedly Suspended for Saying "Illegal Alien" in Class Discussion Sues
Reason.com· 2 days agoA 16-year-old North Carolina high school student says he was suspended just for saying "illegal alien" while discussing word meaning in English class — ...
Why it matters that Biden says antisemitism has become 'ferocious'
The Forward· 2 days agoSpeaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance, President Biden described the...
10 surprising facts about The Simpsons you didn’t know
Digital Trends via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoThe Simpsons has changed the English language 20th Century Studios TV Prior to The Simpsons, D’oh!...
The future of English, complete with contradictory definitions and always-changing spellings
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 4 days agoEach episode is delivered by an amusing narrator who has a deep, rich Russian accent and focuses on a single aspect of the craft. Another MovieWise episode mentioned “enargeia” (“a vivid description ...
A list comprised of words that inspire ire - The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald· 6 days agoFor anyone not familiar with the word, detritus is “a product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away.” Merriam-Webster’s website, for example, notes that you have ...
Listen to What They’re Chanting
The Atlantic· 2 days agoIf you want to gauge whether a protest chant is genocidal or anti-Semitic or disagreeable in any other way, you have to pay attention to more than the...
