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We have a new quiz for you: it's the Brand Name Vocabulary Quiz
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You can always get an exemption for style:
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(It's 20 words without the "yo" and "man" that I added for style)
Yo, dig what we stanned last crepuscule! Sunlit, phatstriped, starry, over walls we watched it survive a nasty scrap, man it waved
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This manages to shorten the original quite a bit, while remaining poetic. Nice job!
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The flag flew over the fort at last light, and it still flies at first light.
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This is an excellent example of the kind of brevity and clarity we were looking for:
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The morning comes, and the flag still waves.
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This week on Word Matters: The difference between 'luggage' and 'baggage.' Also, an explanation of the Recombobulation Station:
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Regional variants poll!
Around the U.S., people use different words for the event where you get together with family or friends to cook and eat food outside. Tell us what you call this, and where you're from.
(And if you're having one this weekend, enjoy!)
- Cookout35.9%
- Barbeque58%
- Other6.1%
2,131 votesFinal results
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Fighting Words! (Everyone loves to argue about this)
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Writing Puzzle #28: July 4th Edition
The opening of the Star Spangled Banner is a great sentence, and far from simple. Convert it to plain & modern English, in no more than 20 words. The best solutions will preserve as much of the meaning as possible.
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Bonus Word of the Day content:
Not to stress you out, but you may be using 'duress' wrong:
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Here are some new words for 'beautiful' (and some old ones as well):
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Let it never be said that a Kansan is uncertain about the name of a drink
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Kansas. Everyone knows it's called pop.
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Same, and ditto.
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New York City. Soda.
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“Fizzy drink�? does have a nice, elegant sound, and has much more geographic breadth than we’d thought:
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I'm from the north of England and all fizzy drinks were "pop" when I was a kid. Now I live in the south of England, they're "fizzy drinks".
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This is highly informative; thank you!
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Other: in Southern teetotaler homes, "drink" always means soft drink (and in NC we do Pepsi, not Coke, even if we call sometimes call it Coke). We're not confused by other beverages because we ask for tea by name (and it is always cold and sweet). What else is there?
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Happy Friday afternoon. Our word for you this week is ‘jackassery,’ defined as “a piece of stupidity or folly.�?
Can you use it in a sentence?
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Roe v. Wade is trending in lookups. As are ‘overturn,’ ‘arrogate,’ ‘codify,’ ‘stare decisis,’ ‘SCOTUS,’ and ‘separation of church and state’
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Plot twist!
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Nike's Headquarters are in Beaverton.
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Some of you are very fond of parenthetical statements, and literalism:
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(He has a picture, taken while he was playing tennis in his office at Nike HQ in Portland, Ore., in which he is wearing the shoes.)
(His office is very large, you see, and has a net in the center.)
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This is not the kind of solution we had in mind, but it certainly works:
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John Hoke once sent out a dispatch:
"My tennis game's not up to scratch.
So I'll work on this sport
In my new office-court."
He's a winner now, game, set, and match.
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Regional variants poll: tell us where you are from, and which of these words you use for the sugary & fizzy drink.
- Pop26.7%
- Soda49.9%
- Coke15.3%
- Other8.1%
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Commonly Confused Words Quiz!
(Almost everyone has trouble with some of these words)
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New episode of Word Matters: Skunked Words (and no actual members of the genus Mephitis are involved)
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