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Savor The JOMO With This Word of The Day Quiz
Please consent to expanding your vocabulary before proceeding with this week’s Word of the Day Quiz. | May 13 – May 19, 2019 If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Tell us your favorite word from this week below (and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter)!
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The Most Surprisingly Serendipitous Words Of The Day
We’re back celebrating our Word of the Day! Because there’s plenty left to reminisce about from the last 10 years. In Part II of our lexical stroll down memory lane (see Part I, 1999–2008, here), we will be examining word selections from 2009–2018, unearthing serendipitous synchronicities and offering perspicacious perspectives into notable events and trends of the last decade. Oops, just kidding, because our first …
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The Changing Language Of Climate Change
The language surrounding climate change is changing right alongside the climate itself. But, it all began with global warming … Climate change was first known to many of us as global warming, a phrase dating to the 1950s that indicates “a longterm rise in Earth’s average atmospheric temperature.” The idea that global warming exists and could be attributed to human behavior, however, was first put forward in 1896 …
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Faith Hilling
Faith Hilling is a fictional, satirical meme featured in a 2012 episode of the adult cartoon South Park. It involves boys pulling their shirts to resemble having breasts. -
autosexual
Content warning: The following article contains explicit references to sexual language, which are included because they document the real-world use of this term. Autosexual is a term for sexual attraction to oneself, especially a… -
couged it
Couged it refers to the Washington State University Cougars football team. If a team has couged it, they've squandered all their chances for victory and have lost the game. The expression is sometimes used for salvaging a win at… -
Should We Use Emoji In Work Emails?
A few decades ago, if you told someone that people would soon be sending one another electronic messages full of cartoon smiley faces, they would have looked at you like, well, 🙃. But, the future is now, and we do indeed send each other emails, texts, and tweets all day long that contain hearts and sparkles, crying faces and laughing faces, and all sorts of creatures, …
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pretzel logic
Pretzel logic is an expression used to describe someone's "twisted reasoning." -
blep
Who's the chonky boi doin' a blep? In the internet slang of DoggoLingo, a blep is when an animal, often a dog or cat, has a portion of their tongue hanging out of their mouth. -
laldy
In Scottish slang, a laldy is a "beating" or "thrashing." The expression to give it laldy means doing something with lots of energy and vigor, e.g., with gusto. -
mlem
Is that peanut butter on my nose? Mlem! In the internet slang of DoggoLingo, mlem is the sound a dog (or other animal) makes when they stick out their tongue to lick something, especially their own nose…
