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Talking 2025 Words of the Year on the Lexis podcast
“The more we are talking about words, the better.”View post to subscribe to the site’s newsletter. Read more.
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A simple “yes” or “no”? Nope. Not etymologically.
The origins of the words “yes” and “no” are knotty—and “naughty.”View post to subscribe to the site’s newsletter. Read more.
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Workplace Word Origins: Black Friday, chef, boutique
Philadelphia traffic jams, Greek storehouses, and Latin heads.View post to subscribe to the site’s newsletter. Read more.
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My bad French makes for good etymology: the origin of “oui”
What begins as a Latin demonstrative pronoun becomes an expression of Frenchness.View post to subscribe to the site’s newsletter. Read more.
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“Literature’s hand luggage”: wit and wisdom in James Geary’s “The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism”
A definitive—and delightful—handbook to the hard-to-define aphorism.View post to subscribe to the site’s newsletter. Read more.
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