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Failsonry?
Failsonry?
This word appears to exist only in Josh Marshall’s tweet and subsequent retweets. What’s it mean?
#words
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Failsonry?
Recently updated
Recently updated
The American Dialect Society has picked its word of the year.
#words
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Recently updated
M-W sentence challenge
M-W sentence challenge
“In the name of federalism, show some empathy, or at least some syzygy, you complicit gaffe-prone dotard,” the hurricane warned, “before I turn you into a gyro platter and recuse myself!”
#culture#dictionary#words
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M-W sentence challenge
New AHD entries
New AHD entries
Burner, saltimbocca, GOAT: among the additions this year to the American Heritage Dictionary.
#dictionary#words
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New AHD entries
Word of the day: wrangler
Word of the day: wrangler
At many a performance of The Nutcracker, the volunteering parents who manage the young dancers backstage.
#words
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Word of the day: wrangler
Word of the day: sledgehammer
Word of the day: sledgehammer
Walking through the hardware store, I wondered: why sledgehammer? Does it have something to do with sledding? A mighty hammer used to free a sled stuck in ice? No.
#words
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Word of the day: sledgehammer
More blizzardous
More blizzardous
I went looking for John Ashbery’s word “blizzardous” in Google Books and found an 1888 column by one J. Ashby-Sterry.
#JohnAshbery#words
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More blizzardous
Lash tab
Lash tab
Elaine and I were getting coffee in the library when I wondered about the patch on her backpack.
#words
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Lash tab
Words, can’t stand ’em
Words, can’t stand ’em
Fresca at l’astronave has written a post about words she can’t stand.
#words
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Words, can’t stand ’em
Word of the day: zaatar
Word of the day: zaatar
“In Middle Eastern cuisine: a condiment made from any of these herbs (esp. thyme) singly or in combination, with dried sumac, toasted sesame seeds and salt.”
#food#words
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Word of the day: zaatar
“Zillions”
“Zillions”
A fine episode of Helen Zaltzman’s podcast The Allusionist, about hyperbolic indefinite numerals.
#numbers#words
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“Zillions”
On hope
On hope
Imagine a chair or dean, after a meeting has ended, asking for a private word with a faculty member who suspects plagiarism in the work of some favored student: “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Biff go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
#politics#words
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On hope
Iambic beer?
Iambic beer?
For the splittest of seconds, I misread a word in the definition for “Kriek,” the Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Day.
#OED#poetry#words#misreading
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Iambic beer?