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Increase Your Lexicon: QUIXOTIC (adj)

I think to a certain degree you have to be a bit quixotic when trying to change the world for the better. Belief in something that seems impossible...🤷🏿‍♂️

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Born #OTD 1709 in Lichfield, Dr Johnson came to London where he struggled to earn a living. But went on to write the dictionary that defined the English Language. Hear his life story in our podcast: tinyurl.com/r6x2d9m7 #history #dictionary #london #words

Diving into lyrics
Thesaurus, dictionary, rhyming dictionary. Axioms and idioms. Making a “toast”--where did THAT come from??

#Songwriting #WritingASong #Songwriter #Idea #Lyrics #Phrases #SongwritingProcess #Thesaurus #Dictionary #RhymingDictionary #Axioms #Idioms #MakeAToast #RaiseAGlass

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"Antidisestablishmentarianism" (28 letters) isn't in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. Instead, the longest word there is "acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene" (29 letters). More information here: www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/no-a...

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The #goldenclub has an appropriate yet unclever name. What would you call it?

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Increase Your Lexicon: CALLIPYGIAN (adj)

Aka "dragging a wagon." Aka "apple bottom."
Aka... you understand.

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Increase Your Lexicon: REPARTEE (noun)

This is one of my favorite words for real.

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Dictionary.com Unveils 2026 Summer Word Drop Reflecting Online Language Trends #USA #San_Mateo #Dictionary.com #online_language #2026_word_drop

We must give up
*its*
to be with-it,
so not one of us is empirically, completely,
consistently

with-it.

We are all without-it
in one way or another.

. ݁⋆⭒˚.⋆ ᯓ➤ ݁⋆.˚⭒⋆.

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#with-it #empirical
#trending #popular

He hobnobbed with
the gaunt tweedy gent, currying his minimalist favor.

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A few related antedatings for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "cyborged", from 1976 to 1968; "cyborging", a big 1989 to 1968; "cyborgized", 1989 to 1987. Also cleaned up nearby entries.

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A few related antedatings for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "cyborged", from 1976 to 1968; "cyborging" a big 1989 to 1968; "cyborgized", 1989 to 1987. Also cleaned up nearby entries.

https://sfdictionary.com/view/599/cyborged
https://sfdictionary.com/view/1499/cyborging […]

Headline I will automatically click on: "Carolyn Forché Once Got the O.E.D. for Valentine’s Day".

("I haven’t finished it yet.")

#dictionary @carolynforche.bsky.social

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I find the leitmotif of horrible happenings and their effects pour out throughout my writing class pen.

I wish to make it stop.

To follow better paths I've taken rather than those I was led on like cattle.

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#leitmotif
#blueskywriter
#mentalhealth #psychology

KEEP REMINDING YOURSELF: (1) #AFFORDABILITY is a "DEMOCRAT HOAX"! #DONtheCON says "DUMOCRATS just invented the word!" (200 years AFTER it appeared in the #DICTIONARY .) (2) "tRUMP is RIGHT about EVERYTHING!" (In #BIZARRO #tRUMPWORLD . NOT in the #REALWorld .)

#Godetia flowers be poppin’.

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Man the, verbal, stations!
Scotty we need, more, commas.

“I'm giving it all I've got!”

I said, more, commas!
I am, your, captain!
Give, me, my, Shatner commas!

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#Shatner #comma

#StarTrek #Kirk
#Enterprise
#SomethingEveryday
#internationalliteracyday