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Articles from September, 2013
For language lovers, Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast has been required listening for the past year and a half. Now Lexicon Valley has announced that in addition to the podcast, it is also launching a language blog on Slate. The blog cross-publishes posts from contributors to Language Log, including our own Ben Zimmer.
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You Saw WHAT on a Sign?! Enter Our "Words in the Wild" Contest
Send us your pics of vocabulary writ large
Who would ever imagine that you could drive around a corner in Carteret, New Jersey and have the word abattoir (and a cow head) staring at you?! Check out the image, then send us yours and collect a prize!
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KUOW, Seattle's NPR affiliate, kicked off a new midday show this week called The Record. The show is featuring a regular series on the origins of peculiar words and phrases called "Strange Language," and they're getting the straight dope from our own Ben Zimmer.
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When you hear the words academic vocabulary, you might think of words that live only in academic journals — awkward words such as insomuch, heretofore, or conversely. These words would never roll off your tongue and you would never expect to encounter them on prime time television or on the magazine rack as you wait in line at the supermarket.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: What Did John Kerry Mean By "Kinetic"?
Military jargon for "killing people and breaking things"
During the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing on the possible authorization of U.S. military action against the Syrian government on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry used the word kinetic in a relatively new military sense of the word.
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In his latest monthly batch of under-the-radar euphemisms, Mark Peters illuminates why the care of "post-health professionals" might be necessary after someone is sent on a "trip to Belize."
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