You’re Pronouncing Dr. Seuss’ Name Wrong

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The Meaning of Company, From Bread to Corporate Connotations

Lexicon Valley March 02, 2021 10:48 AM

Hamsterkauf! Coronazeit! There’s a German Word for Your Pandemic Experience.

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The Theory That Explains How Senate Republicans Justify Acquitting Trump

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Wallowing in Negativity

Lexicon Valley Feb 16, 2021 9:01 AM

Stop Defacing Quotes With Brackets!

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Fossil Hunting in English

Lexicon Valley Feb 02, 2021 9:27 AM

Why You Aren’t Actually Losing Something by Reading Books in Translation

Rumaan Alam

Feb 01, 2021 10:00 AM

The Biden Administration Is Offering More Info in Spanish and ASL. That’s a Start.

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Translator Damion Searls Explains Why His Job Is More Creative Than Technical

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Stonks

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Joe Biden and Amanda Gorman Brought Back the Idea That Words Matter

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Why Do Languages Have Gender?

Lexicon Valley Jan 19, 2021 9:39 AM

Orwell Would Be Horrified by the Right Wing’s Use of Orwellian

Andrew Liptak

Jan 12, 2021 3:24 PM

Nicolas Cage’s History of Swear Words Is a Freakin’ Delight

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Words Have a Way of Rebelling Against Their Etymological Parents

Lexicon Valley Jan 05, 2021 8:44 AM

Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?

Lexicon Valley Dec 22, 2020 7:44 AM

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Embracing a Brand of Textualism Too Extreme for Antonin Scalia

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Lexicon Valley Dec 08, 2020 9:17 AM

On the Origin of English

Lexicon Valley Nov 24, 2020 10:00 AM