Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Vocabulary
Wednesday Words: ‘LeBronning It,’ Groomzillas, Planking and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Oxford English Dictionary’s New Entries Include ‘Gender Reassignment,’ ‘Auto-Complete’
June’s update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes almost 2,000 new or revised entries. Some terms have gained status through the worlds of technology or gender politics. Others are just good, old-fashioned slang (hello, use …
Wednesday Words: Father’s Day, Word Maps and Hip-Hop Wrestling
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Wednesday Words: Weinergate, Socks, and the End of Humanity
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Words Used to Describe 2012 GOP Field: Unimpressive, Stubborn, Dinosaurs
The Pew Research Center and the Washington Post teamed up to find out how America feels about the current (possible) candidates for the Republican party’s 2012 bid. The top response was unimpressive, perhaps because it was the …
Eighth Grader Spells ‘Cymotrichous’ To Win Scripps National Spelling Bee
Her winning word means “having the hair wavy,” but what 14-year-old Sukanya Roy really spelled last night was V-I-C-T-O-R-Y.
National Spelling Bee: Scenes from the Semi-Finals
Just up the street from the National Harbor in Maryland, America’s fiercest young spellers are battling for the honor of being the country’s top letter-wielder. NewsFeed filed a dispatch from the semi-finals.
Wednesday Words: ‘American Idol’-isms, Hawaiian Shirts and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Wednesday Words: Why Dominique Strauss-Kahn Is a ‘Chaud Lapin’ and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Transportation Secretary Unsure of What a Hipster Is. NewsFeed Helps Him Out
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expressed solidarity with bicyclists. Told ” his heartfelt defense of bikers came off like the musings of a run-of-the-mill hipster,” his response was, …
Wednesday Words: Governator’s New Name, Flood Fluency, Osama Cocktail and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).