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  1. Tweet épinglé
    9 avr. 2013

    Most English speakers accept the fact that the language changes over time, but don’t accept the changes made in their own time.

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  2. il y a 4 heures

    I don't know...you could...look it up?

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  3. il y a 9 heures

    Tonight is the first time since the first weeks of the pandemic that every one of the top thirty words being looked up pertain to the same story.

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  4. il y a 9 heures

    'Surreal' is now rising in lookups.

    📈 Top searches, in order: sedition, coup d'état, coup, fascism, capitol, breach, insurrection, racism, treason, anarchy, putsch, terrorism, riot
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  5. a retweeté
    il y a 10 heures

    Only because multiple people are asking... It's the Capitol building in the capital city. To remember the spelling difference, think of the O as the rotunda.

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    il y a 11 heures

    As ever, is our national barometer

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  7. a retweeté
    il y a 11 heures

    NPR guidance: we won’t be calling the people who stormed the Capitol ‘protestors’ - they are ‘pro-Trump extremists’ and what they are doing is ‘insurrection’.

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  8. il y a 11 heures

    'Insurrection' comes from the same Latin root that gave English 'insurgent' and 'surge.'

    📈 We define 'insurrection' as "an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government."
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    il y a 12 heures

    📈 We define 'insurrection' as "an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government."

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    il y a 13 heures

    📈 Top searches, in order: sedition, coup d'état, coup, fascism, capitol, breach, insurrection, racism, treason, anarchy, putsch, terrorism, riot

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  11. il y a 17 heures

    'President' has an etymology that is hiding in plain sight: "one that presides." In Webster's 1828 dictionary, he clarifies: "Hence it usually denotes temporary superintendence and government." Webster knew the framers of the Constitution personally.

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  12. 5 janv.

    IN TWO HOURS

    Ad with That Word Chat with Editor Mark Allen logo, the headline Word of the Year 2020, the text January 5 • 4:30 p.m. (ET) followed by Ben Zimmer, Peter Sokolowski, John Kelly & Katherine Connor Martin, the URL bit.ly/ThatWordChat, and four small mugshots of the guests.
    Only a day left to sign up for our lexicographers' party edition of . We'll be chatting with , , & . Sign up now:
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  13. 5 janv.

    The second stuntman, disappointed, climbed the following day at dawn, since the platform was still in place and his parachute was packed. He jumped also, just to say that he did it. He was promptly fired.

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  14. 5 janv.

    The scene showing Grace Jones jumping off the Eiffel Tower was filmed at dawn for safety & so as to have few witnesses to get ideas. They planned to shoot it 2x, giving the chance to two stuntmen, but the 1st take was so good that it was only done once.

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  15. 5 janv.

    The best-known portrait of Montaigne hangs in the museum at Chantilly.

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  16. 5 janv.

    Oddball things I like about "A View to a Kill" include that some scenes were filmed at the Château de Chantilly, where whipped cream is purported to have been invented by the chef Vatel. ('Whipped cream' in French is called 'crème chantilly' to this day.)

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  17. 5 janv.

    A View to a Shill

    Hours after announcing the death of Tanya Roberts, the actress known for starring opposite Roger Moore in his final turn as James Bond and for her roles in “Charlie’s Angels” and “That ’70s Show,” her publicist said on Monday that he had done so in error.
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  18. 4 janv.

    RIP Claude Bolling, pianist, composer, bandleader, and Ellington obsessive who became an honorary member of Ellington's band. He also sometimes winked at Count Basie, never more than in his wild version of "La Marseillaise."

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    4 janv.

    Paging •

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    4 janv.

    Only a day left to sign up for our lexicographers' party edition of . We'll be chatting with , , & . Sign up now:

    Ad with That Word Chat with Editor Mark Allen logo, the headline Word of the Year 2020, the text January 5 • 4:30 p.m. (ET) followed by Ben Zimmer, Peter Sokolowski, John Kelly & Katherine Connor Martin, the URL bit.ly/ThatWordChat, and four small mugshots of the guests.
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  21. 4 janv.

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Dictionary. "A word’s etymology is its biography; sometimes it reveals a disguise. It seems fitting that the word 'spy' is an English-looking monosyllable borrowed from French that ultimately comes from Germanic roots."

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