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PublishedJanuary 3, 2021
In a word: Idioms! They’re all a bunch of idioms!
Lewiston wordmeister Jim Witherell explores our language's many word phrases that make no sense unless you know what they mean, catch my drift?
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2021
In a word: Joan Didion: ‘The arrangement of words matter’
'To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed,' the well-known writer once said.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2020
In a word: Getting possessive about US place names
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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
In a word: Jim and Claus take on the Queen’s English
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PublishedDecember 6, 2020
In a word: Are you pickin’ up what I’m lying down?
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PublishedNovember 29, 2020
In a word: Popular word game had hardscrabble start
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PublishedNovember 22, 2020
In a Word: Brighten your day with some spritely wordplay
We offer you parts of the English language that bring us joy to give you a brief reprieve from the news cycle.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2020
In a word: Newspapers’ role in the popularity of ‘word-cross’ puzzles
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PublishedNovember 8, 2020
In a word: Teddy Roosevelt, the SSB and how words are spelt
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PublishedNovember 1, 2020
In a word: Early eforts to chanje the languaj make me ake
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