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• Dictionary.com Chooses ‘Complicit’ as Its Word of the Year
• Word of the Year 2017: Dictionary.com Says ‘Complicit’ Topped ‘Totality’
• Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2017: ‘Feminism’
• Nobody in the UK Has Ever…
Language Policing
• China Would Really Like You to Stop Saying “Tofu”
• Eight Ways English Is Creeping Its Way into Chinese, as Explained by a Chinese YouTuber
• “Good on the Floor?” Five Funny Times Google Translate Drops the Ball with Japanese Idioms
• Quebec Tries to Say Au Revoir to ‘Hi,’ and Hello to ‘Bonjour’
• French the New Lingua Franca of the World — Vraiment?…
Weight for Santa
• How Much Weight Would Santa Gain from Eating Milk and Cookies at Every House He Visits?
• Santa Claus, Indiana Gets 20,000 Letters a Year — and ‘Elves’ Reply to All of Them
• Here Lies Santa Claus? Researchers Zero In on Bones of St. Nick
• Finally, Proof That Christmas Songs Really Do Your Head I…
New York Life
• The Subtle Art and Serious Physics of Subway Surfing
• NYC Transport Replaces ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ with Gender-Neutral Announcements
• New York Today: Subway Announcements Get a Human Touch
• NYC Invalidates $26 Million Worth of Parking Tickets over Tiny Error
• Man Finds Car 20 Y…
Language Lessons 1
• Toilet Signs Are Mysterious and Mirth-Inducing
• Finally, Evidence of Just How Much Scientists Love Using Adverbs
• 25 ‘Engrish’ Items That Got Hilariously Lost in Translation
• How to Tell Whether You Have Angst, Ennui or Weltschmerz
• Languages for Which There…
Surrounded by Sound
• Since 2010, Sad Songs Have Become Less Common All over the World
• Sorry, Christmas Music Might Be Bad for Your Health
• Scientists Analyze the Moods of 90,000 Songs Based on Music and Lyrics
• The Simple Statistical Analysis That Explains the Entire History of Popular Music
• This Bird’s Songs Share…
Don’t Have to Baby Me
• Babies Might Understand Language Better Than Anyone Thought
• Babies Learn What Words Mean Before They Can Use Them
• 6-Month-Old Infants May Understand Related Words
• Hide and Seek Might Be Good for Kids’ Brains
• School Bans Teachers from Marking in Attempt to Boost Children’s Confidenc…
Let’s Talk Turkey
• The Dreaded ‘Turkey Drop’: Here’s Why Couples Break up around Thanksgiving
• Here’s the Deal with All Those Turkeys Terrorizing the Suburbs
• Meet the Turkey’s Glamorous Mexican Cousin
• How to Win the Wishbone Wish
• Why Do U.S. Presidents Pardon Turkeys, Anyway?
• 25 Things You Didn’t Know about Turkeys
National Colors
• The Reason You Almost Never See Purple on National Flags
• Tourism Logos of US States
• Tourism Logos of Canadian Provinces
• Tourism Logos for Italian Regions
• The World’s Most Powerful Passport Is No Longer European
• Places Where English Is an Official Language
• Main Native Language-Fami…
Splitting Words
• The Guardian View on Translation: An Interpretative and Creative Act
• ‘Battle of the Dictionaries’ Ends in Victory for Casino as Court Rules Star Poker Player Cheated
• What Is ‘Edge-Sorting’ and Why Did It Cost a Poker Star $10 Million in Winnings?
• Supreme Court Delves into Semantics of English in a Capital Cas…
Do You Swear?
• The Size of Things: An Ngram Experiment
• Swearing Is Good for You by Emma Byrne; How to Swear by Stephen Wildish — Review
• Daily Telegraph to Readers: Are You Able to Specifically Describe ‘Crap’?
• Language Patterns Reveal Body’s Hidden Response to Stress
• The Randomness of Languag…
Language Universals
• German Untranslatable Words
• What English-Language Courtroom Dramas Sounds Like to Swedes
• 25 Words You Didn’t Know Were in the Dictionary
• Is an All-English Classroom Good for Students?
• What Is Universal Grammar?
• What Is Neurolinguistics?
• Grammarly Debuts IOS Keyboard App to Help Improv…
Grammar School
• Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeias
• How to Arrange (and Rearrange) Prepositional Phrases
• Become an Expert in Using Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• What Are the Parts of a Prepositional Phrase?
• List of the Principal Parts of Some Common Irregular Verbs in Englis…
Kids in Charge & Sheep View
• Why Do We Call People Blamed for Things ‘Scapegoats’?
• 15 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Goats
• The Greek Beach Where Goats Are in Charge
• Is It … Baa-Rack Obama? Sheep Able to Recognise Celebrities, Say Neuroscientists
• Stunned Farmer Finds Flock o…
Clearing up Fall Food
• Sweet Potato or Yam?
• Pumpkins Versus Gourds
• Elephants Vs. Giant Pumpkins
• The Elephants of the Oregon Zoo Gleefully Squish Some Giant Pumpkins to Celebrate the Fall Season
• How Do You Breed a 2,624 Pound Pumpkin?
• Pumpkins Evolved from a Literal Genetic (Monster) Mash-Up
• The Great Pumpkin-Pie Consp…
Living Language
• ‘Alt-Right,’ ‘Troll’ and ‘Dog Whistle’ Among New Entries Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• ‘Froyo,’ ‘Troll,’ and ‘Sriracha’ Added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Isn’t Trolling You, It’s Just Redefining What That Means
• Languages with a Synthetic Pluperfect Tense (Or… (Linguistic Map…
I Say Ouch!
• Tripp and Tyler Engage in a Hilarious Conversation Full of the Typical Faux Pas That Many People Make
• Funny Examples of Awful Language Usage
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• Found: The Oldest Example…