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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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"'Ha ha' and 'he he' signify laughter in Latin and in English, because they are cried out when laughing."
Wonderful evidence here in Ælfric's Grammar that 'ha ha' has been the sound and spelling of laughter in English since at least the 11th century and the Old English period.
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So excited to present this Friday at the @English_CMU Bridges & Borders conference panel Laboring in Graduate School: Perspectives on Becoming Mothers and Academics, moderated by @StephRLarson! The event is free, virtual, and open to the public! Register: eventbrite.com/e/bridges-and…
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really admiring the guts it takes to pick a reign name with a 50% incidence rate of abolishing the monarchy
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There is no one I have less in common with than the me who wrote my Facebook statuses circa 2008
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CFP: Worlding Wordle
How does Wordle make worlds? How might we think utopian horizons disclosed by synesthetic forms— rhythms of color shape text? Is there a literature of wor(l)d(l)ing? An ecology? Send abstracts, CV, and your second fav starting word after penis by March 1
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[youth pastor voice] wordle? you know whose WORD 'LL change your life?
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Based on the tweets in my timeline I assume the new variant is called wordle.
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Radical abolitionist John Brown was executed on this day in 1859 for trying to spark a revolution to free millions held in bondage.
His soul goes marching on.
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I haven’t watched Ted Lasso but I can only imagine what the hell is going on in there to generate this many think pieces week by week. Like did they pivot from soccer to laboriously breaking down the Israeli Palestinian conflict
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in 1981 Eve Sedgwick bought a computer "in a spasm of feminist counterphobia" and apparently she loved it!































