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Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
March 3, 2022
By Orin Hargraves

What's your go-to metaphor? Examination of corpora reveals that dreams have always been a basis of comparison but modern life gives us many more choices.  Continue reading...
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The Lingo of Film Noir
November 19, 2021
By Nancy Friedman

Gunsels, gumshoes, and hard-boiled dames: Your guide to the slangy talk in Hollywood films of the late 1940s and early 1950s.  Continue reading...
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Our Chocolate Redeemer
August 5, 2021
By Orin Hargraves

Many of the names for the most popular foods we associate with Mexico are not of Spanish origin; they come from Nahuatl and they are called by a descendant of their original name today in both Spanish and English.  Continue reading...
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