Reminder: Tomorrow is #ThatWordChat’s Words of the Year 2024 show, featuring:
- Mark Gwynn (Australian National Dictionary Centre)
- Fiona McPherson (Oxford English Dictionary)
- Lynne Murphy (University of Sussex)
- Wendalyn Nichols (Cambridge Dictionary)
- Peter Sokołowski (Merriam-Webster)
- Kelly Wright & Ben Zimmer (American Dialect Society)
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A 2024 review with a difference: @bgzimmer presents our 10th Annual Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing!
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/the-10th-annual-tucker-awards-for-excellence-in-swearing/
#swearing #profanity #StrongLanguage #2024review #TuckerAwards #MalcolmTucker #language
Happy fucking new year! 2024 was a shitshow. See it off with our 10th Annual Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing, by @bgzimmer
#swearing #profanity #StrongLanguage #2024review #TuckerAwards #MalcolmTucker #language
In August 1924, just four months after the publication of the book that set off the crossword craze, Richard Simon and Max Schuster were back with a new collection, dubbed The Cross Word Puzzle Book, Second Series. And unlike the first time around, when the publishers were too wary to
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