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PublishedAugust 8, 2021
Did Neil Armstrong really use the ‘A’ word? Quotes and misquotes
In a Word: Lewiston word expert Jim Witherell has also always wondered about the time someone telephoned quotable baseball great Yogi Berra at 2 a.m.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2021
In a word: A celebration of weird words that won’t leave you too wabbit
Relax under your bumbershoot for a spell before things go all cattywampus.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2021
In a word: Stereotypes and the language of aging
One word we should all embrace: 'Activity.' 'We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing,' warned writer George Bernard Shaw.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2021
COVID-19 also spread new words, phrases
In a Word: The simple act of getting (or not getting) a shot — also called a 'jab' or a Fauci ouchie — has spawned its own additions to our vocabulary. Words and phases include "streetery,” "the moveable middle” and "vacctivists."
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PublishedJuly 11, 2021
In a word: They/them, ze/zir and our evolving pronouns
What I was reminded of is that a stagnant language can become an impediment to cultural change.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2021
A brief history of the ‘degrading’ Type-Writer
In a Word: The first portable word processor caught the attention of no less than Mark Twain, who then couldn't get rid of it.
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PublishedJune 27, 2021
Shakespeare’s not ‘too much of a good thing’
In a word: While it's debatable if Shakespeare is the 'be-all and end-all,' he did offer many words and phrases that are used to this day.
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PublishedJune 20, 2021
In a word: We all make mistakes, even with spell-check
Then there’s the 1631 edition of the “King James Bible,” which tells its readers “Thou shalt commit adultery.” Most of them were burned.
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PublishedJune 13, 2021
In a word: Today we pray tribune to malapropisms
'Doc, I realize that you’re at the pineapple of your career, but you don’t have to be so blaze about the whole thing.'
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PublishedJune 6, 2021
In a word: Nothing breviloquent about these long words
Coming in a somewhat distant second at 36 letters is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, a coined word for the fear of long words.
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