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With the new Star Wars movie Rogue One opening today, it's a fitting moment to look at how the meaning of rogue has evolved over the years, from one who is deceitful and worthless to today's connotation of the charming scoundrel.
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To mark Bruce Springsteen wrapping up his summer tour and his autobiography, perhaps it is appropriate to look at a side of Springsteen that doesn't get enough attention -- Springsteen the wordsmith.
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The periodic table of elements is an iconic image familiar to anyone with even the rudiments of education and it is perhaps one of the most successful visual representations of information ever conceived: it brings a high level of order to a field of knowledge that is too complex to organize in memory and it rewards study at every level.
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Word CountWriters Talk About Writing
From Being In a Pickle to Hitting a Can of Corn
Things you wouldn't hear anywhere but on the baseball field
The language used by the National Pastime is wonderful and strange (and not all food-related) - there are things you can say in baseball that you wouldn't say anywhere anywhere else.
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Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexicon
A Big Upset in the Competitive Crossword World
Six-time champ Dan Feyer finally met his match in Howard Barkin.
While college basketball fans may be marveling at the exciting upsets of March Madness, the world of competitive crossword solving has experienced a major upset as well, as six-time reigning champion Dan Feyer was dethroned in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, losing out to first-time champ Howard Barkin.
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Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and new
Remixing Lexical Rubbish
"Remix" is a doozy of a euphemism for "layoff."
Have we already seen the Euphemism of the Year? It's possible, euphemism enthusiasts: brace yourselves for a major-league, double-tongued, weapons-grade whopper of a doozy.
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Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and new
Clean Eating, Horse Cookies, and Other New York Values
Another roundup of euphemisms, including one from the presidential debates.
As most word-watchers predicted, the American Dialect Society picked Netflix and chill as 2015's Most Euphemistic term. It was an obvious and strong choice, even though it makes me want to Netflix and take my own life at this point.
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