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86 relations: ADS, Albert Bernhardt Faust, American Council of Learned Societies, American Name Society, American Speech, Anchor baby, Anne Curzan, Apollo Robbins, App Store (iOS), Aughts, Bae (word), Ben Zimmer, Black Lives Matter, Calvin Thomas (linguist), Campaign for the neologism "santorum", Cellar door, Chinese home run, Cookie pusher, David Barnhart, Death panel, Dennis Baron, Dictionary of American Regional English, E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt), Einar Haugen, Emoji, Google (verb), Grant Barrett, Grog, Harris Wittels, Hugh S. Gibson, IAU definition of planet, Into the Labyrinth (Dead Can Dance album), James Russell Lowell, Jazz (word), Jinx, John Algeo, John R. Rickford, Jolly Roger, Kelsie B. Harder, Levette J. Davidson, Lies, damned lies, and statistics, Life hack, Linguistic Society of America, List of learned societies, List of linguistics conferences, List of scandals with "-gate" suffix, List of The Colbert Report episodes (2005–06), Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year, Lolcat, Macaca (term), ..., Manhattan (cocktail), Mansplaining, Maria Leach, Mobile app, Muffin top, Murphy's law, Occupy movement, Oliver Farrar Emerson, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pistol-whipping, Pluto, Products produced from The Simpsons, Randall V. Mills, Richard W. Bailey, Semi-vegetarianism, Serial killer, She, Singular they, Snowclone, Soccer mom, Spastic, Stephen Colbert, Swamp Yankee, The Colbert Report, The whole nine yards, The Yale Book of Quotations, Truthiness, Vegetarianism, Walt Wolfram, Walter Spencer Avis, Wardrobe malfunction, Weapon of mass destruction, Whale tail, Word of the year, Wrap rage, ... Not!. Expand index (36 more) »
ADS
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Albert Bernhardt Faust
Albert Bernhardt Faust (April 20, 1870 in BaltimoreFebruary 8, 1951) was a United States German and German-American studies scholar.
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American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), founded in 1919, is a private, nonprofit federation of 75 scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences.
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American Name Society
The American Name Society (ANS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad.
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American Speech
American Speech is a quarterly academic journal of the American Dialect Society, established in 1925 and published by Duke University Press.
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Anchor baby
"Anchor baby" is a term (regarded by many as a pejorative) for a child born in the United States to a foreign national mother that unlawfully resided in the United States at the time of the child's birth.
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Anne Curzan
Anne Curzan is a professor at the University of Michigan, author of books on language, member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and co-host of That's What They Say on Michigan Public Radio.
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Apollo Robbins
Apollo Robbins (born May 23, 1974) is an American sleight-of-hand artist, security consultant, self-described gentleman thief and deception specialist.
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App Store (iOS)
The App Store is a digital distribution platform, developed and maintained by Apple Inc., for mobile apps on its iOS operating system.
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Aughts
The "aughts" is one way of referring to the first decade of a century, in American English, such as 2000s (decade).
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Bae (word)
Bae is a slang term of endearment primarily used among youth in North America.
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Ben Zimmer
Benjamin Zimmer (born 1971) is an American linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator.
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Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people.
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Calvin Thomas (linguist)
Calvin Thomas (October 28, 1854 near Lapeer, Michigan – November 4, 1919 in New York City) was an American scholar who served as professor of Germanic languages and literature at Columbia University.
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Campaign for the neologism "santorum"
The campaign for the neologism "santorum" started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a sex columnist and LGBT rights activist.
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Cellar door
In phonaesthetics, the English compound noun cellar door has been cited as an example of a word or phrase which is beautiful purely in terms of its sound (euphony), without regard for semantics (i.e., meaning).
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Chinese home run
In baseball, a Chinese home run, also a Chinese homer, Harlem home run, or Pekinese poke, is a derogatory and archaic term for a hit that just barely clears the outfield fence at its closest distance to home plate.
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Cookie pusher
The term Cookie Pusher has been applied as a reference to diplomats in general and members of the United States Foreign Service specifically.
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David Barnhart
David K. Barnhart (born 1941) is an American lexicographer who specializes in new words.
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Death panel
"Death panel" is a political term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States.
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Dennis Baron
Dennis Baron (born May 9, 1944) is a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Dictionary of American Regional English
The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a record of American English as spoken in the United States, from its beginnings to the present.
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E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.
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Einar Haugen
Einar Ingvald Haugen (April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, author and Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University.
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Emoji
are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and web pages.
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Google (verb)
As a result of the increasing popularity and dominance of the Google search engine, usage of the transitive verb to google (also spelled Google) grew ubiquitously. The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the World Wide Web, regardless of which search engine is used. The American Dialect Society chose it as the "most useful word of 2002." It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006, and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006.
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Grant Barrett
Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage.
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Grog
Grog is any of a variety of alcoholic beverages.
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Harris Wittels
Harris Lee Wittels (April 20, 1984 – February 19, 2015) was an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.
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Hugh S. Gibson
Hugh Simons Gibson (August 16, 1883 – December 12, 1954) was an American diplomat.
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IAU definition of planet
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined in August 2006 that, in the Solar System, a planet is a celestial body which.
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Into the Labyrinth (Dead Can Dance album)
Into the Labyrinth is the sixth studio album by Dead Can Dance, the duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.
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James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.
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Jazz (word)
The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after word origins in modern American English.
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Jinx
A jinx (also jynx) in popular superstition and folklore, is a curse or the attribute of attracting bad or negative luck.
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John Algeo
John Algeo (born 1930) is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Georgia.
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John R. Rickford
John Russell Rickford (born September 16, 1949 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese academic and author.
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Jolly Roger
Jolly Roger is the traditional English name for the flags flown to identify a pirate ship about to attack, during the early 18th century (the later part of the Golden Age of Piracy).
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Kelsie B. Harder
Kelsie Brown Harder (August 23, 1922 – April 9, 2007) was an American professor and onomastician (name scholar).
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Levette J. Davidson
Levette J. Davidson was a nationally acclaimed expert in folklore, especially that of Colorado and the West.
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments.
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Life hack
Life hack (or life hacking) refers to any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life.
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Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics.
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List of learned societies
This is a partial list of learned societies, grouped by country.
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List of linguistics conferences
This is a list of recurring linguistics conferences.
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List of scandals with "-gate" suffix
This is a list of scandals or controversies whose names include a "-gate" suffix, by analogy with the Watergate scandal, as well as other incidents to which the suffix has (often facetiously) been applied.
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List of The Colbert Report episodes (2005–06)
This is a list of episodes for The Colbert Report in 2005 and 2006.
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Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year
The lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year (for each year) are ten-word lists published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, Inc., which feature the ten words of the year from the English language.
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Lolcat
A lolcat (pronounced) is an image macro of one or more cats.
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Macaca (term)
Macaca (feminine) and macaco (masculine) are the Portuguese words for "monkey" (compare English macaque).
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Manhattan (cocktail)
A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.
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Mansplaining
Mansplaining (a blend of the word man and the informal form splaining of the verb explaining) means "(of a man) to comment on or explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner".
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Maria Leach
Maria Leach (April 30, 1892 – May 22, 1977) was an American writer and editor of books on folklores of the world.
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Mobile app
A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch.
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Muffin top
A muffin-top (or "muffin top") is a slang term typically used to describe a man or woman's skin or body fat that is visible above the waistline of pants or skirts because of tight clothing.
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Murphy's law
Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong".
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Occupy movement
The Occupy movement is an international socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of "real democracy" around the world.
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Oliver Farrar Emerson
Oliver Farrar Emerson (born in Traer, Iowa, 24 May 1860; died in Ocala, Florida 13 March 1927) was a United States educator and philologist noted for Chaucer scholarship and his History of the English Language.
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
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Pistol-whipping
Pistol-whipping or buffaloing is the act of using a handgun as a blunt weapon, wielding it as if it were a club or baton.
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Pluto
Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune.
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Products produced from The Simpsons
The long-running television animation The Simpsons has featured a number of fictional products, sometimes spoofs of real-life products, that have subsequently been recreated by real world companies attempting to exploit the popularity of The Simpsons.
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Randall V. Mills
Randall V. Mills (1907-1952) was an English professor with a variety of interests related to the Pacific Northwest, including steamboats, railroads and folklore.
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Richard W. Bailey
Richard Weld Bailey (October 26, 1939 – April 2, 2011) was an American linguist, scholar of the English language, and the Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Semi-vegetarianism
A semi-vegetarian or flexitarian diet is one that is plant-based with the occasional inclusion of meat.
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Serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree.
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She
She is a feminine third-person, singular personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.
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Singular they
Singular they is the use in English of the pronoun they or its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (or themself), as an epicene (gender-neutral) singular pronoun.
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Snowclone
A snowclone is a cliché and phrasal template that can be used and recognized in multiple variants.
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Soccer mom
The phrase soccer mom broadly refers to a North American, middle-class, suburban woman who spends a significant amount of her time transporting her school-age children to youth sporting events or other activities, including—though not restricted to—soccer.
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Spastic
Derived via Latin from the Greek spastikos ("drawing in", "tugging" or "shaking uncontrolably"), the word spastic refers to an alteration in muscle tone affected by the medical condition spasticity, which is seen in spastic diplegia and many other forms of cerebral palsy and also in terms such as "spastic colon".
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Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host.
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Swamp Yankee
"Swamp Yankee" is a colloquial pejorative for rural Yankees (northeastern Americans with English colonial ancestry).
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The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005 to December 18, 2014 for 1,447 episodes.
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The whole nine yards
The whole nine yards or the full nine yards is a colloquial American English phrase meaning "everything, the whole lot" or, when used as an adjective, "all the way", as in, "The Army came out and gave us the whole nine yards on how they use space systems." Its origin is unknown and has been described by Yale University librarian Fred R. Shapiro as "the most prominent etymological riddle of our time".
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The Yale Book of Quotations
The Yale Book of Quotations is a quotations collection that focuses on modern and American quotations and claims a high level of scholarship and reliability.
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Truthiness
Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.
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Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.
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Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram (born February 15, 1941) is a sociolinguist at North Carolina State University, specializing in social and ethnic dialects of American English.
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Walter Spencer Avis
Walter Spencer Avis (B.A. 1949 Queen's University, M.A. 1950 Queen's University and PhD 1955 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) was one of the foremost Canadian linguists of his day.
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Wardrobe malfunction
A wardrobe malfunction is accidental exposure of a person's intimate parts due to a temporary failure of clothing to do its job.
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Weapon of mass destruction
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.
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Whale tail
Whale tail is the Y-shaped waistband of a thong or G-string when visible above the waistline of low-rise jeans, shorts, or a skirt that resembles a whale's tail.
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Word of the year
The word(s) of the year, sometimes capitalized as "Word(s) of the Year" and abbreviated "WOTY" (or "WotY"), refers to any of various assessments as to the most important word(s) or expression(s) in the public sphere during a specific year.
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Wrap rage
Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open packaging, particularly some heat-sealed plastic blister packs and clamshells.
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