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City Lights celebrates the 50th anniversary of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind. “With one million copies in print, A Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published,” says the bookstore of its [...]
Stories in Language/grammar:
Woot!
Yes, woot. Or wOOt. That’s what voters in Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007 poll chose as 2007’s most iconic word. BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow offers his take: “M-W says that the word is a gamer’s acronym for “we own the other team,” but I’m inclined to think that that’s a backronym, a back-formed acronym created [...]
Happy ?.;! to you
Somehow we missed it, but style maven Maj Harmon is always on top of festivities great and small. She advises that today is National Punctuation Day!
Woot!
Yes, woot. Or wOOt. That’s what voters in Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007 poll chose as 2007’s most iconic word. BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow offers his take: “M-W says that the word is a gamer’s acronym for “we own the other team,” but I’m inclined to think that that’s a backronym, a back-formed acronym created [...]
Happy ?.;! to you
Somehow we missed it, but style maven Maj Harmon is always on top of festivities great and small. She advises that today is National Punctuation Day!



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