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noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
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Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent? Take us to church.
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Trivia on 'trivia' In ancient Rome, a trivium was an intersection of three roads (tri, "three" + vium, road). According to the Romans, when people met at a trivium, they would discuss trivialis ("inconsequential things") - which eventually helped give trivia its modern meaning.
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Trivia on 'trivia' In ancient Rome, a trivium was an intersection of three roads (tri, "three" + vium, road). According to the Romans, when people met at a trivium, they would discuss trivialis ("inconsequential things") - which eventually helped give trivia its modern meaning.
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Thank you for RSVP'ing 'YES' to our Writing Puzzle! Here are the words we had in mind but you all have taught us that there were multiple answers.
Tweet from @netseva4 "Appear for the dinner? Is he normally invisible? And you don’t decide to RSVP (unless you are particularly rude I guess), you decide what your response will be, yes or no, and the give it."
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On Saturday night, President Biden will appear for the dinner for the second time in his presidency. Mr. Biden, who gets out of town most weekends, decided to R.S.V.P. to the dinner.
Writing Puzzle #70 A recent NYTimes article reported that President Biden would attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. It’s unusual for him to accept an invitation like this because he rarely spends weekends in DC. Spot two strange word choices in the sentences below.
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Writing Puzzle #70 A recent NYTimes article reported that President Biden would attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. It’s unusual for him to accept an invitation like this because he rarely spends weekends in DC. Spot two strange word choices in the sentences below.
On Saturday night, President Biden will appear for the dinner for the second time in his presidency. Mr. Biden, who gets out of town most weekends, decided to R.S.V.P. to the dinner.
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These rules were never taught to you! In fact, expletives were probably WITHHELD from you when you learned the language... You innately acquired rules that govern the structure and pronunciation of words. Your sub-BLEEPING-conscious is a powerful thing!
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Okay, but what about ‘unbelievable,’ where ‘liev’ is stressed? If you say ‘unbe-BLEEPING-lievable,’ that follows the normal pattern. But the equally familiar ‘un-BLEEPING-believable’ is an exception. Either works. So listen to your heart.
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Why do we say ‘fan-BLEEPING-tastic’ but not ‘fantas-BLEEPING-tic’? The main reason, linguists believe, is that the curse word comes before the syllable that bears the primary stress. (The ‘tas’ is stressed in ‘fantastic.’)
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Congratu-BLEEPING-lations! It’s time we had a little talk about your use of expletive infixation. ‘Expletive infixation’ is the linguistic term for profanity inserted into a word for emphasis. (For this thread, we’ll use 'BLEEPING,' but feel free to substitute another word.)
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