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Mar.31.2010
The 11 Most Surprising Banned Books (PHOTOS, POLL)
The Huffington Post
Even though it's not banned books week, the issue of censorship is ever-present, and while going through the list, we found those that didn't surprise us (Howard Stern's "Private Parts," "The New Joy of Gay Sex,...
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Mar.16.2010
Creaky old wicker chair I love you and sea shells I love you on the windowsill and battered dictionary to my right, bound with brown masking tape, I love you too. Four pens splayed on my desk that is the colour of ivory or antique french, can't quite remember now, nor does it matter. Sunglasses too...
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Feb.02.2010
A hundred miles south of L.A., a school district is meeting to decide whether or not to ban the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. What? That was my reaction too. If a dictionary can get banned from a public school in the United States, then all books are in serious trouble. Apparently,...
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Jan.27.2010
This is how some people waste their lives.
Dictionary definition raises ruckus at Menifee school
The school district pulls the Merriam Webster 10th Collegiate editions off classroom shelves for study by a newly formed committee after a parent complains about explicit definitions of sexual terms.
It...
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Aug.03.2009
A new German dictionary has acquired 5,000 new words and many of them are English.
Around 5,000 new words have been officially added to the German language as the country's iconic dictionary, Duden, introduced its first new edition for three years.
The new version contains 135,000...
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Jun.24.2009
On Midge's blog:
http://www.midgeraymond.com/blog/
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Jun.11.2009
This is promising. I was the first to look up Kafka.http://www.wordnik.com/
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Jan.29.2009
From my January 27 column on tips for using the dictionary:
Is it “I have drunk my coffee” or “I have drank my coffee”? Do you dissociate from something, or dissociate with it? Does “scallop” rhyme with “gallop” or with “trollop”?
Most people find questions like these downright terrifying. Not only...
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Dec.10.2008
Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like "blog", "broadband" and "celebrity". Dozens of words...
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