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Justine Brooke Murray |
Can you spell “in-doc-tri-na-tion?” The Scripps National Spelling Bee competition is the latest academic program to re-educate America’s youth into…
Brittany M. Hughes |
It appears the Merriam-Webster Dictionary actually changed their definition of the word “preference” to include an “offensive” label next to the…
P. Gardner Goldsmith |
It’s the kind of story that echoes citations of postmodernist linguistic maneuvering in the decades-long battle over the politicization of…
Brittany M. Hughes |
Looks like they've gone and done it, now. And by "they," I mean them.  No, no. Not multiple people. Just one. One person of the gender-non-…
ola olugbemi |
Merriam-Webster just revealed that the word “feminism” was the most searched word of the year, and people had opinions. I think talk about…