Ben Zimmer
Subscriber since: December 2007
Location: New York, NY
About Me
I'm executive producer of Visual Thesaurus and editor of the online magazine.
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omphaloskepsis
Navel-gazers, unite!
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mulct
That's just not a pretty word.

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"Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used."
- David Lehman

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A Troop of One
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Bridge That Gap!
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