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• Tweet hits the Oxford English Dictionary…

  
  Latest News from around the world, nepal news, breaking news, latest news, US today, Nepal today, India today — Authority: 120
    THE WORD ”tweet” has been added to the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, despite having been around for less than a decade. This is unusual for the OED, but it said that the word, which means to send a message on Twitter, is “catching on”. “The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking ...
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• Reemerging twinges of lust for our old boyfriend, Bill Clinton.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 685
  Thats the post title Ive written for this quotation of the first 2 sentences and the last 2 sentences of Maureen Dowds new column . Read with me, and then lets talk about it: Not  only is President Obama leading from behind, now he’s leading from behind Bill Clinton. After dithering for two years over what to do ...
  2 days ago

• "The headteacher of a Cambridge sixth form has defended an exam question which gave teenagers a raunchy description of sexual intercourse."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 685
  "Cambridge exam board OCR asked AS-level Latin candidates about Ovid’s Amores, in which the poet tells his mistress she can sleep with other men." The students are 16 or 17 years old. Heres the controversial passage, translated: “...slip off your chemise without a blush and let him get his thigh well over ...
  1 week ago

• "Healthing."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 685
  Im not sure what bothers me more here — the word "healthing" or the notion of spraying germ-killer all over the house. What passes for cleaning these days? What passes for healthy? What passes for language?! AND: ALSO: I looked up "fungi" in the OED, hoping for some better pronunciation info, after many ...
  2 weeks ago

• "When you’re in public, you’re in public. What happens in public, is the very definition of it."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 685
  "I don’t want you telling me that I can’t take pictures in public without your permission." Jeff Jarvis, quoted in an article about the intrusions of Google Glass . Mr. Jarvis said we’ve been through a similar ruckus about cameras in public before, in the 1890s when Kodak cameras started to appear in parks ...
  3 weeks ago

• Experience defines loyalty, not unsubstantiated claims

  
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  The Oxford English Dictionary – quality never dies but bogus marketing claims will always fall by the wayside. The ultimate success of any product or service is adduced by its successful utility in the hands of its intended target. A true sales conversion, therefore, is one where a product or service can be shown ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pronouns, "Quotation Marks," and Punctuation (oh my)

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 560
  Dr. Mercury at Maggies Farm supports my use of "they" as the gender-neutral third person pronoun English needs but does not have (though he includes a tasteless picture of a family member in distress).   But he wants to make it clear that I am 20 years late in joining the revolution.  So be it.   I will add that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Getting to the heart of poetry

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 576
  Oxford University Press recently partnered with The Poetry Archive to support Poetry by Heart , a new national poetry competition in England which saw thousands of students aged 14 to 18 competing to become national champion for their skill in memorising and reciting poems by heart. OUP provided free content from ...
  3 weeks ago

• MEANDERINGS OF MEMORY by Nightlark

  
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    "In 2013, when an OED staff member sought tolook at the source material for the dictionarys entry for ‘revirginize,’ forwhich a passage from Meanderings ofMemory [by ‘Nightlark’] is quoted, the publication could not belocated." -- Wikipedia entry.   O Nightlark! How our memory meanders, ...
  4 weeks ago

• "Heh, great stuff, Althouse. Cf. Derrida on Nietzsches umbrella."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 685
  Says Yashu, in the comments on "The word umbrella appears exactly once in Obamas Dreams From My Father." And that was after Id read rhhardin, commenting on "Sigmund Freud on the meaning of the umbrella" : "Derrida in Spurs on the umbrella that Nietzsche wrote he had forgotten." Im spurred to read "Spurs," but ...
  4 weeks ago

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