15 days ago by Amber

As Americans, we use a lot of formerly powerful words in very meaningless ways. "Awesome" has less to do with a feeling of awe and more to do with how much you liked that new flavor of ice cream at Baskin Robbins. "Literally" gets thrown around so much now that most of the time, it's just assumed th ...

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18 days ago by Cory Ellis

Author’s note. A year ago I was witnessing a revolution unfold before my eyes in Egypt and now here I am writing about the word douchebag. The sudden turn to the mundane and seemingly trivial is an attempt to widen my portfolio and broaden my horizons as a writer and commentator. I’ve come to hate t ...

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61 days ago by Brian

Okay, this is too small and dark to appreciate here, so go look at the original here, and read about it here (via The Society Pages). It’s still awfully dark and hard to read, but it’s much, much larger and you can get a better sense of what’s what. Basically, it’s a linguistic map of regional terms ...

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207 days ago by Ooh la la . . .

The following article is taken from the BBC News Magazine and is a follow-up from readers' emailing their most annoying Americanisms. I for one am more than just 'annoyed' at the way the English language is being bastardised by the American language and sadly it seems to be slowly creeping in to our ...

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