words
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The word ‘assassination’ was first used by Shakespeare in ‘Macbeth’. What are its origins?
Sumanto Chattopadhyay
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Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride
Rizwan Ahmad Manish Thakur
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Watch: Third grade students and their teacher play Wordle together in class (and get it right)
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Satirist explains Merriam-Webster word of the year ‘gaslighting’ with examples from India
Scroll Staff
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Wordle: Watch talk show host Jimmy Fallon play viral word game on ‘The Tonight Show’
Scroll Staff
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Five words that don’t mean what you think they do
Simon Horobin, The Conversation
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How did ‘corona’ become a word? This series of videos titled ‘Linguistics’ explores etymology
Scroll Staff
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Why are language and grammar the way they are? Because of the limitations of the human mind
David Adger, The Conversation
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Bloodbath, war room, shot down: ‘Warspeak’ is permeating everyday language, creating violence
Robert Myers, The Conversation
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Move over, ‘hygge’. The word the world really needs to combat stress is Danish, and it is ‘pyt’
Marie Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation
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Jerry Pinto on fear, hate – and the magical power of words
Jerry Pinto
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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