Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride

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Wordle: Watch talk show host Jimmy Fallon play viral word game on ‘The Tonight Show’

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Five words that don’t mean what you think they do

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How did ‘corona’ become a word? This series of videos titled ‘Linguistics’ explores etymology

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Why are language and grammar the way they are? Because of the limitations of the human mind

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Bloodbath, war room, shot down: ‘Warspeak’ is permeating everyday language, creating violence

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Move over, ‘hygge’. The word the world really needs to combat stress is Danish, and it is ‘pyt’

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· Mar 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

Jerry Pinto on fear, hate – and the magical power of words

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No matter what the language of a book (or a person), why do we like some words more than others?

Carmen Álvarez-Mayo, The Conversation

· Sep 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm