You don't need much imagination to guess why people who work in the dictionary world would be interested in new words, but the research methods for finding them are much more wide-ranging and intensive than you might imagine.
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How important is a slogan during a global health crisis like the one we're experiencing with COVID-19? More important than you might think.
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The stay-at-home orders of recent months have meant a lot more time to deep-dive into etymologies, and this has led me to reflect on a thing I hadn't noticed as much before: English has a surfeit of expressions for the idea 1 + 1.
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A case recently argued before the US Supreme Court — by telephone! — teaches us a lot about trademarks, generic terms, and domain names.
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Do the profound insights made by J. L. Austin and Paul Grice have any application to "conversations" in which the traffic in words is by definition all or nearly all one-way?
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Article Topics:CandlepowerAd and marketing creatives(Talkin' 'Bout) the Generations  April 28, 2020
Before the 20th century, generational names were rare or nonexistent. What changed? And what do the names of generations tell us about history and identity?
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Article Topics:Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversI May Not Know Grammar, But I Know What I Like April 3, 2020 By Orin Hargraves
We'll all be doing each other a great favor by paying most of our attention to the substance of what others say, and the least of our attention to the way they say it.
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