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Dictionaries RSS FeedsHey, Girl, Words of the Year - I prepared these slides to entertain the crowds at the American Dialect Society’s 2011 Words of the Year vote. (See Ben Zimmer’s recap and video at Visual Thesaurus.) They got a few titters, so you might enjoy them, too. I left out the comma after “hey” in accordance with the style of the image macro [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com My Eighth Annual New York Times Words of the Year List - My eighth annual New York Times words-of-the-year list is live. The words I included are just a fraction of the hundreds of terms I considered. I had to leave out many worthy candidates, but you’ll no doubt see them come up in the 2011 “word of the year” vote held by the American Dialect Society [ ]... I Need You For The Radio Show - I want you to donate to the nonprofit that produces the radio show I co-host and co-produce. It’s 9 p.m. here on the West Coast. I’m just back from an educational forum featuring Michelle Rhee, who used to run the Washington D.C. schools. A lot of the talk was about students, and some of what [ ]... The Disappearance of Lemolade - At four years and eight months, my son Guthrie is about 44 pounds and 44 inches of a limitless capacity for making us laugh. Dinner time is a comedy/variety hour. It may include jokes, laps around the table, a puppet show from underneath the tablecloth, made up songs about bodily functions, putting new words to [ ]... The Pronunciation of American Humorists - A delightful find in a book from 1874 (On Early English Pronunciation, Asher & Co., London, for the Philological Society): a long list pronunciations used by American humorists to represent the speech of the common American. There are pages and pages of it. Many of them are new to me, which suggests that they are [ ]... What are your words of the year for 2011? - Over the next week I’m polishing the Big List I’ve been gathering all year for my eighth annual words-of-the-year piece for the New York Times. What words or phrases shouldn’t I miss? Ideal entries will be newish (they don’t have to be brand new) or newly important, widely used or widely discussed, or they should [ ]... New blog! New look! - Here we are: my fourth blog on the fourth domain on the fifth content management system since 1999. Welcome! More to come.... New verses to ?My Darling Clementine? - Ever since we bought some delicious clementines at the farmer’s market, I’ve been composing new verses to “Oh My Darling, Clementine.” She dies of a new accident in each one. It’s easier to make up new verses to songs I half remember than it is to hunt down the real words and memorize them. She [ ]... How do you pronounce ?both?? Please take the survey! - Do you pronounce the word “both” differently from other English-speakers? Take the survey and tell others about it. The more respondents we get, the more we’ll know.... Garbanzos or chickpeas? - Which term do you use: garbanzo bean or chickpea? The survey is here.... piacular: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - piacular: expiatory; atoning; reparatory.... Copyright © 2012, Donna's List. All Rights Reserved. |