📖 Word Origins

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Are There Linguistic Conspiracy Theories?
psychologytoday.com·17h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
openculture.com·1d
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Words
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February 7 Wikipedia featured article
en.wikipedia.org·15h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
SciDef: Automating Definition Extraction from Academic Literature with Large Language Models
arxiv.org·1d
🔬Curious Science
The Dark Patterns I Refuse to Build: A Developer's Lexicon
indiehackers.com·23h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
Some good English word datasets
ntietz.com·5d
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Free OSINT Resource for Dorks: Google Dorks Compendium | Claudia T. posted on the topic
linkedin.com·2d
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The Written Word is Not Vanishing. It Is Being Reassigned
hackernoon.com·2d
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Mad Biographers Brain Dump
tbr.bearblog.dev·2d
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Article: The hed, the dek, the lede and the nut graf
bmon.co.uk·2d
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Confusing words: Part, a part, apart
grammaticus.blog·2d
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The Grammarphobia Blog: On the euphemism treadmill
grammarphobia.com·5d
💬Small Talk Fodder
11 Bloody Brilliant British English Phrases
babbel.com·3d
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The Traditional Baby Name Is Fading—And Parents Around the World Are Behind It
studyfinds.org·2d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words!
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ReFRAME or Remain: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection with Frame Semantics
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The différance engine: large language models and poststructuralism | AI & SOCIETY
link.springer.com·3d
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A Practitioner's Guide to Taxonomies, Part II
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Language Controls Thought
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