Social Media Explained (with donuts)
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Hahaha sooooo true!
You need not come any longer, Freedom. We have found our joys in your absence.
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| — | Iranian poetess, Elham Eslami, who died in a car accident yesterday along with her poet husband, Gholamreza Boroosan (via seaofgreen) |
“LAST year I had to have a minor biopsy. Every time I went in for an appointment, I had to fill out a form requiring my name, address, insurance information, emergency contact person, vaccination history, previous surgical history and current medical problems, medications and allergies. I must…
How does a word get into the venerable Oxford English Dictionary? Wide, long use is key. New-words editor Fiona McPherson enlists a small army of readers to comb through books, magazines, newspapers, and various online sources. Fresh words or meanings […] are added to a database; their usages are tracked for up to ten years. If “cankle,” for instance, pops up often enough, it may be one of the 4,000 words—out of 6,000 considered—that make the cut each year. Then it will be there to stay. “The OED is unique,” says McPherson, “in that we never remove a word once it has been included.”
