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     It’s Esperanto Day, Celebrating the Language Hitler Despised

     The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Frank Perry/AFP via GettyIn the late 1800s, the city of Białystok—which was once Polish, then...

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     Another Way: A mother’s dictionary

     The Daily American via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Have you ever caught yourself using one of your mother’s — or father’s words, that doesn’t really come from any language that you know of other than...

3. • Welch: Much ado about Goggie

     Times Record News via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     Much ado about Googie architecture has prompted some preservationists to press for preserving a former Dallas coffee shop that represents the iconic Googie style. Googie? Yep. Googie. Iconic ...

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     ‘Language City’ Review: The Words on the Street

     The Wall Street Journal· 3 months ago

     BOOKSHELF Words are coined and money talks, but the link between linguistics and economics is more than metaphor. Most notably, as Ross Perlin writes in...

5. • American leaders should stay out of internal Israeli politics, Israel's president says

     Politico via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago

     Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should stay out of internal Israeli politics, Israel's president said in an interview Sunday. "Whilst I respect Charles Schumer for his steadfast support ...

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     Former US Sen. Joe Lieberman remembered as 'mensch' who bridged political divides

     Associated Press via AOL· 2 months ago

     Former Vice President Al Gore and other politician dignitaries remembered the late Joe Lieberman...

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     Can English unite a divided America? A Mexican American scholar weighs in

     NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     Different groups have made American English their own, says Latino scholar Ilan Stavans in "The...

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     The Things We Can't Say

     Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months ago

     Illustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...

9. • First word on 23: Mon Schools spelling bee is next month

     The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     Dec. 21—Joe Paull, the late educator and community activist, used to patiently spell it out. "It's not easy, " Paull once told The Dominion Post. "You're in the arena, in front of a bunch of ...

10. • Meet Mon's newest spelling bee champion

      The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 4 months ago

      Jan. 11—Gotta spell 'em all. Which is exactly what Deven Ramanthan did Wednesday afternoon at the 2024 edition on the Monongalia County Spelling Bee. Deven, a Mountaineer Middle School seventh-grader ...