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REVIEW: Jesse Sheidlower's The F-Word, 4th edition - Strong Language
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Doing Hard Time in Shaker Heights: So, you are thinking about chickens, did you say?
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| | Cookie knows chickens. I have learned, and know And Cookie is here to tell you that there is a difference between chicken in real life an...
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"Bog standard"
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| | Keith Huss (@keithhuss) writes on Twitter: "Having British wife and friends, I'm familiar with the phrase "bog standard". Recently read it twice on US tech blogger sites." New one on me! The Oxford English Dictionary describes "bog standard" as: "slang (depreciative, chiefly Brit.). Ordinary, basic, standard without extra features or modification; unexceptional or uninspired." The...
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Separated by a Common Language: conf(l)ab
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| | [AI summary] An American linguist analyzes the etymology, usage frequency, and likely origins of the colloquial term 'conflab' in American versus British English through corpus data and reader comments.
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Whence Did They Come? - Arrant Pedantry
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| In a recent episode of Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast, John McWhorter discussed the history of English personal pronouns. Why don't we use ye or thee and thou anymore? What's the ...