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- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
All language is a popularity contest.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is a nice way to remember things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All words have life cycles.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
- Flannel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020