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    Jan 20

    This week on Word Matters: questions from you! Featuring - "people who" vs. "people that" - why things are said to "go south" - singular words that sound plural - words that go from literal to figurative (and then stay there)

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    Here's wishing you a warm and happy !

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    'Hoard': 💰 a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away 'Horde': 👥 a large unorganized group of individuals

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Start your day/week with a nice video about eggcorns:

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Good morning! Today's is 'optimization'

    Word of the Day January 25 2021 - optimization - noun - ahp-tuh-muh-ZAY-shun - the act of making something perfect
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  6. 22 hours ago

    The Ellipsis: A Guide

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  7. Jan 24

    Good morning! Today's is 'insouciance'

    Word of the Day January 24 2021 - insouciance - noun - in-SOO-see-unss - lighthearted unconcern
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  8. Jan 23

    Trust us, we wouldn't just snooter you with a bunch of rannygazoo.

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  9. Jan 23

    Good morning! Today's is 'ad hominem'

    Word of the Day January 23 2021 - ad hominem - adjective - ad-HAH-muh-nem - marked by an attack on character
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  10. Jan 22

    'Nostalgia' was coined as a combination of words for "homecoming" + "pain."

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  11. Jan 22

    Among the words that saw increased lookups this week: - touchback - poet laureate - multiculturalism - pariah

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  12. Jan 22

    👑

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  13. Jan 22

    'You and I' or 'You and me'? 'Him and her' or 'He and she'? On pronouns in compound phrases:

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  14. Jan 22

    Good morning! Today's is 'sarcophagus'

    Word of the Day January 22 2021 - sarcophagus - noun - sahr-KAH-fuh-gus - a stone coffin
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  15. Jan 21

    Parents and educators: we'd love to hear from you! Would you take this very short survey about our new kids' vocab newsletter?

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    Jan 20

    This week on Word Matters: questions from you! Featuring - "people who" vs. "people that" - why things are said to "go south" - singular words that sound plural - words that go from literal to figurative (and then stay there)

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  17. Jan 21

    When the walls surrounding Paris were torn down and made into streets, the name for the path along the top stuck around: 'boulevard.'

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  18. Jan 21

    Some 15th-century collective nouns: - an unkindness of ravens - a tabernacle of bakers - a murmuration of starlings - a drunkenship of cobblers

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  19. Jan 21

    Good morning! Today's is 'exact'

    Word of the Day January 21 2021 - verb - ig-ZAKT - to demand and obtain
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    Jan 20

    It's interesting that the American tradition of using 'inaugurate' embeds through a strange Roman superstition, a way to measure the luck of the future officeholder by ritual reading of omens from the flight of birds.

    📈 Today's top search: 'inauguration'
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