Emily Brewster

@eabrewster

Lexicographer and Muser About Language. Tweets are my own.

Joined July 2010
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  1. 1 hour ago

    So your significant other hesitates before calling your boss "notorious" to their face ('Member that time, sweetie?)

    1 retweet
  2. 24 hours ago

    Microsoft Word will tell you it's "wait staff" but our evidence says it's "waitstaff." In case you were wondering.

    2 retweets 7 likes
  3. Oct 27

    Proof that we used to don things other than our gay apparel.

    15 likes
  5. Oct 20

    And of course there's something interesting to say about "nasty": .

    7 retweets 7 likes
  6. Oct 19

    Over and out.

    Good night, and good luck.
    6 likes
  7. Oct 19

    "Sad" traces back to an Old English word meaning "sated":

    14 retweets 37 likes
  8. Oct 19

    Why is this happening again? Did this tweet go viral for nothing?

    Note that more people are looking up 'lepo-' (as in, "what's a lepo?") than 'Aleppo'.
    1,442 retweets 1,550 likes
  9. Oct 19

    Element of surprise: the unexpected or surprising character of something

    3 likes
  10. Oct 19

    'Rig' spiking from Trump's comments.

    36 retweets 64 likes
  11. Oct 19

    Rig, circa 1851: to manipulate or control usually by deceptive or dishonest means

    3 retweets 7 likes
  12. Oct 19

    "Debunk" has political roots:

    2 retweets 2 likes
  13. Oct 19

    Crocodile tears: a 16th century term in a 21st century debate.

    36 retweets 57 likes
  14. Oct 19

    Free trade is "a system of trade between nations in which there are no special taxes placed on imports"

    9 retweets 10 likes
  15. Oct 19

    "Trickle-down" dates to 1944:

    1 retweet 2 likes
  16. Oct 19

    Big league. He's actually saying "big league":

    6 retweets 11 likes
  17. Oct 19

    This baby is completely unfazed by fake-biting her head. She's thinking hard about political terms.

    6 likes
  18. Oct 5

    New adventures in functional shift: "dad" as an adjective. I like it!

    20 retweets 50 likes
  19. Oct 3

    You probably could benefit from looking up 'autophagy.' Also: the accent is on the second syllable.

    📉 We're seeing no increase in lookups for 'autophagy' in our online dictionary. Seriously?
    5 retweets 26 likes
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  21. Sep 19

    Oh oh oh!

    Happy Monday! Look what just arrived on my doorstep:
    3 likes

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