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Last Rites for Vanishing Words

A language is an ecosystem, and words, like species, may be predators or prey, hosts or competitors
By Eric Scigliano

‘Zucknesis,’ ‘Vadervite,’ ‘Mistermister’ and 19 More Words for How We Live Now

The age of mobile devices, the urban resurgence and the Internet has created a lot of new weird situations that we don't have language for.
By Brady Dale
Barbara Castle (1910 - 2002, right), Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, shares a cup of tea with the leaders of the female machinists' strike from the Ford plant in Dagenham, at the Ministry, 28th June 1968. (Photo by Wesley/Keystone/Getty Images)

The Best Part of Middle Age: Letting Go of Shame

I want to talk about a topic most of us shy away from discussing, for reasons inherent in the definition of the word itself: shame.
By Deborah Copaken
Jeff Koons, "Aqualung." (Courtesy Christie's)

Highlights From Christie’s Press Release About the Gritty Underbelly-Esque Side of Contemporary Art

By M.H. Miller

Let's All Marvel At Karl Lagerfeld's Chic and Well-Stocked Library!

By Nate Freeman

Palin-Coined ‘Refudiate’ Named Oxford Word of the Year

By Nate Freeman

Behind The Mayor’s Ground Zero Mosque Speech

By David Freedlander

E-Books Demand Many Adjectives

By Molly Fischer

Today in Linguistics: Dying Tongues, ‘Brooklynese’

By Molly Fischer

‘Ninja’ is the New ‘Nerd’

By Molly Fischer
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