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Articles from 2016
The weather outside is partly cloudy whether you like it that way or not. A wether, on the other hand, is a castrated sheep. You read that right.
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Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and new
Remixing Lexical Rubbish
"Remix" is a doozy of a euphemism for "layoff."
Have we already seen the Euphemism of the Year? It's possible, euphemism enthusiasts: brace yourselves for a major-league, double-tongued, weapons-grade whopper of a doozy.
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Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word Lovers
An Example For Us All
A recent brouhaha over example sentences raises concerns over dictionary biases.
Even if you don't have an online news alert set up for the word dictionary, you may have caught wind of the recent tempest involving the exemplification of the adjective rabid with the phrase "rabid feminist" in some Oxford dictionaries, especially a dictionary that is used on smartphones.
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Tasty MorselsGood stuff from Vocabulary.com
Education Talk Radio Shines a Spotlight on Vocabulary.com
A freewheeling chat about how vocabulary instruction is being transformed.
Yesterday, Vocabulary.com's director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis joined Larry Jacobs, host of Education Talk Radio, to talk about how Vocabulary.com is making a difference for students around the country.
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CandlepowerAd and marketing creatives
Journey to the Center of a Metaphor
Why do so many people talk about going on "journeys" these days?
Over the last 35 or so years, journey has become one of our culture's dominant metaphors, a handy stand-in for experience, ordeal, process, test, investigation, story, and series of events.
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Announcements
The January Vocabulary Bowl Top 20 Roundup is Live!
What does it take to be Number 1? Our vocab-casters report.
Following last month's SportsCenter-style Vocab Bowl Top 20 Roundup, vocab-casters Chris Strausser and Cayman Lowe bring the same excitement to Vocab Bowl-watching for January.
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As the United States celebrates Presidents' Day, it's a good time to mull over how we ended up calling the national leader "president" in the first place. Executive editor Ben Zimmer spoke to NPR's All Things Considered about the term's history.
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