I maybe wouldn’t have gone with a portmanteau here

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but i’m a creep

[guitar riff]

i’m a sméagol

No.

Coming soon: The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary, ed. Edward Finegan and Michael Adams (Cambridge University Press: June 2024). www-cambridge-org.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/core/books/cam…

This Is Just To Say

I have drunk
the milkshake
that was in
the yard

and which
you were probably
saving
for all the boys

Forgive me
it was delicious
and better
than mine

What a wonderful vuwel! xkcd.com/2907/

English is part of a large language family that includes French, Welsh, Polish, Persian, Greek, and Albanian.

They stem from a common ancestor reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European.

The cardinal numerals from 1 to 10 illustrate their relationship well. Click for a selection:

incredible

Nigel Richards is a gentle, mild-mannered, private, witty, unflappable enigma—the undisputed Scrabble GOAT, and one of the most dominant players of any game ever. defector.com/scrabbles-best…

My hot #DST take: If they really wanted it to be 'daylight saving time' (with no '-s' on 'saving'), they should have made it 'daylight-saving time' (with emphasis on 'daylight').

🎶 Pussies in bios and randoms in mentions
NFT ads and cerebral pretensions
Sinister theories of global elites
These are a few of my favourite tweets
1/8

As my friend José Pablo Iriarte noted on Facebook, this would be funnier if it said APA style.

The flappy dialect struggle is real.

It's surprising that this simple observation has attracted so much attention.

The premise of the criticism is that 'the dictionary has changed the rules of English,' which is wrong, following on 'you can't end a sentence with a preposition,' which is also wrong.

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'The quarrel is probably as old as English prepositions themselves, so about 600 years.'

When you have definitely done your research on the usage-related topic that you're writing about. (The article doesn't get much better after that.)

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*Geonathon

So, cauda is Latin for 'tail'.

In everyday speech, it became cōda – from this, via Italian, English gets 'coda'.

In Old French, cōda became cue – and from the Normans' word for 'tail', English gets 'queue'.

Moreover, a cuard, someone who turns tail and runs, gives us 'coward'.