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    Dictionaries ❌ make up words ❌ endorse the concepts described by the words they enter ✅ describe and document the way language is used and the way it evolves

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  2. One painting: 'still life' Many paintings: 'still lifes' Here's the deal.

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  3. Some post-Big Game vocabulary: 'Crapulence' - sickness occasioned by intemperance (as in food or drink)

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  5. Early football fields were marked in a grid pattern rather than parallel lines, which led to the nickname 'gridiron' (previously a type of grill grate used for torture).

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  10. 📈'Perfidy': the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal; treachery

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  11. 'Drunkery' (essentially meaning “place where one gets drunk”) has been in use since the early 19th century.

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  12. 'Cheeseparer' - a skinflint 'Quakebuttock' - a coward 'Bumblepuppist' - a bad whist player

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    "If you're partial to flat adverbs, you can take comfort in the fact that history—and the dictionary—is on your side. You may even decide to ignore the competing -ly versions entire."

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  15. calumny blindside rube pandemic A look at the words from this last week of January:

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  17. We're running a 2-for-1 special on words today: 'Misologist' - one given to misology (a hatred of argument, reasoning, or enlightenment)

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  19. 'Throttlebottom' (an innocuously inept and futile person in public office) comes from the name of a character in the 1931 musical 'Of Thee I Sing.'

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  20. Happy 100th birthday to these words! (Or, from the English language's perspective, these *children*.)

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  21. How well do you remember all the words of 2020 thus far?

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