Today is Thursday Feb 9th, 2012
Thursday Feb 9th, 2012
Denim venom: future products in the style of jweats
By Mark Peters
Word blends are the bunnies of language: they breed like motherfathers. During the recent American Dialect Society meeting in Portland, plenty of blends were singled out. Assholocracy is an apt description of America, especially in an election year. Botoxionist refers to a doctor specializing in the forehead region of vain people. A brony is a bro who loves The Little Pony. That word was voted Least Likely to Succeed, but you can bet similar words will keep sprouting: particularly in the world of fashion.
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Thursday Feb 9th, 2012
Europe: it’s not all bad
John McCormick is the voice of optimism on Europeanism
Wednesday Feb 8th, 2012
The Dawes Act: How Congress tried to destroy Indian reservations
The 125th anniversary of the Dawes Act is not, for Indians, a cause for celebration.
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Thursday Feb 9th, 2012 10:00PM EST
RT @odnb: Who was Turing and why the campaign for a pardon? Here's his story http://t.co/SyYYnSZs #Recent Comments
- Meghan: How bizarre, how bizarre...
- Stephen Pevar: Thanks, Jamie. Moreover, the Dawes Act is just one of many anti-Indian
- Terminologia etc. » » Arriva il fantomatico Blizzard!: [...] L’etimologia di blizzard, parola che contiene elementi di fonosimbolismo, è [...]
- The Dawes Act: How Congress tried to destroy Indian reservations : 57647: [...] http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/dawes-act-congress-indian-reservations/ [...]
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Writing the OED: New Words
Senior Editor Fiona McPherson explains how and why new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. http://oed.com
