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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Eleventh Edition | Merriam-Webster

#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

Another exciting word!

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2d

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TheBookHippie I like it!!! 2d

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CBee Thank you for posting! The day got away from me 🤪 2d

TheSpineView @CBee My pleasure! Love all these new words!! 2d

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##WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

I think all tobacco is foul-smelling.

melissajayne I just thought it was a character‘s name from Harry Potter 2w

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MemoirsForMe Love this word! 2mo

dabbe @MemoirsForMe I do, too! 🩶🖤🩶 2mo

CBee Great word! 2mo

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#WeirdWordWednesday @Cbee

Lagan: goods thrown into the sea with a buoy attached so that they may be found again

Lcsmcat Who knew we needed a word for that? 3mo

dabbe @Lcsmcat 😂🤩😂 3mo

TheSpineView @Lcsmcat True! 3mo

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#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

This would be more funny if it wasn't true.

AnnCrystal 💕🎅📚😂💝. 4mo

dabbe 🎯!!! 🤩🤩🤩 Have you ever seen Weird Al's WORD CRIMES? If not, you need to. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc 😘 4mo

AmyG Ha! 4mo

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ShyBookOwl 🤣🤣🤣 4mo

TheSpineView @dabbe Love Wietd AL! So funny! Thanks for sharing that! 🤣🤣🤣 4mo

Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣 4mo

dabbe @TheSpineView It was one of my favorite things to show my students when we'd start the first grammar unit of the year. I then told them, if I see zero errors in your writing, we won't “do“ grammar. Guess what never happened? 😂 4mo

TheSpineView @dabbe I can imagine! Great story. 4mo

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Daisey

The Merriam Webster Dictionary | Merriam-Webster

I don‘t have a specific word to share today, but I did see this post from Merriam-Webster this week that I think is worth a share.

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 4mo

BookmarkTavern I love this Twitter account! 💖 4mo

Daisey @BookmarkTavern They definitely share some fun word info! 4mo

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#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

I ran across this new to me word last week. I'm trying to jot words down as I stumble upon them. Not sure I would call this one weird but I found it interesting and thought you might too.

A toast to weird, wonderful and interesting words!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Happy Wednesday!

CBee Weird is used pretty loosely 😊 Great word!! 4mo

TheSpineView @CBee 👍🤩🌞 4mo

BookmarkTavern That one is fun to say! 4mo

TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern 👍🤩😊 4mo

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Lucifer's Lexicon | L. a. Rollins

Happy #SINday degenerates!

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Dilara

Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy | Simon Blackburn

Probably of limited interest to non-French people, but the baccalaureate philosophy exam started at 8 this morning, and the essay questions are now out:

Vocational stream
Is Nature hostile to Man
Is the artist master of their own work

Academic stream
Can science satisfy our need for truth
Does the State owe us anything

Inspired or not?

Thinking of all those teenagers sweating on their exam papers in many different parts of the world...

Kitta As a scientist, I‘m definitely interested in these questions! I feel that science can give us the answers and can tell us the truth, but that maybe we won‘t reach them in our lifetimes and we‘ll have to wait for the next generation to understand. It‘s a frustrating reality that progress can be slow. 10mo

IuliaC These are very relevant questions 10mo

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards "Is the artist master of their own work?" is taking all sorts of new nuance with AI! 10mo

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Dilara @Kitta Slow and every new discovery or insight brings about new questions! It's neverending... 9mo

Dilara @IuliaC Definitely! 9mo

Dilara @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards Oh, I hadn't thought of that 😁 9mo

Dilara For whoever is interested, Le Monde newspaper published essay examples for some of these questions: https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/live/2024/06/18/en-direct-bac-philo-2024-un-enseig... 9mo

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Sace

Merriam-Webster Dictionary | Merriam-Webster

Pedantry alert!
Over the last few months I‘ve noticed a linguistic shift that is driving me insane. I first noticed on podcasts (hence the picture), but I‘ve even noticed in work emails (written by educators no less). There seems to be a trend to shorten words. “Priorities” becomes “priors”. “Comparisons” and “Competitions” both become “comps” (which previously was used for “comprehensive exams”). ⬇️

Sace In each case it wasn‘t exactly clear which word they were abbreviating. I find this unacceptable. Educators and bookish podcasters especially shouldn‘t take shortcuts. (edited) 11mo

Sace PS: I find it doubly annoying in speech because there‘s no character limit when speaking. 🙄 11mo

Amor4Libros Agree!! 11mo

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kspenmoll I totally agree! 11mo

Mollyanna Absolutely agree! 11mo

Sace @Amor4Libros @kspenmoll @Mollyanna Thanks for supporting my moment of annoyance 😂 11mo

Clare-Dragonfly Wow! I haven‘t encountered those to my knowledge but they sound very annoying! Those words already have meanings that are not really distinct enough from the new ones. 11mo

Sace @Clare-Dragonfly I just don‘t get it. 11mo

MoniqueReads305 I agree with most of this except comps. I thinks that's publishing language bleeding into education through social media.. When authors sell their books to publishers they provide comps. That's why you'll hear stuff like Little Women meets Lord of the Files. 11mo

dabbe This retired high school English teacher agrees 💯! 💙🩵💙 11mo

Hooked_on_books “Priors” for priorities?!? I get the desire to shorten words sometimes, but that changes it to a completely different word and thus the meaning as well! Accuracy and clear communication is far more important than shortening a few words! 11mo

Hooked_on_books And that‘s absolutely not pedantry! 11mo

julesG What about speakers of English as a second/foreign language? That's so wrong. Don't make it harder for us. Language is evolving, of course, but that's just sloppy. An email is not a handwritten letter that takes ages to copy, 11mo

julesG ... It's just lazy and confusing. 11mo

Sace @MoniqueReads305 Ah! Thanks for the information. It was in fact a bookish podcast that used “comps” so knowing that bit of publishing language makes sense now. 11mo

Sace @julesG absolutely agree! And that kind of usage doesn‘t make it into dictionaries either (at least it would take a bit of searching to find). 11mo

Sace @Hooked_on_books Right? I‘m seeing/hearing it more than I would like. 😂 11mo

Sace @dabbe 🩵 I can imagine how infuriating this kind of thing would be for English teachers. I don‘t think students have started doing this (yet). 11mo

rwmg I haven't come across those yet. But I have come across comp as a verb meaning, as far as I can make out, (of a business) give somebody something free to pacify them after they make a complaint. 11mo

Sace @rwmg oh yes! That‘s another common one that (I think) most of the general public knows. 11mo

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