Word Soup Wednesday

February 29, 2012

While the television show The Soup brings you “the strange, obscure and totally unbelievable moments in pop culture, celebrity news and reality TV,” Word Soup brings you those strange, obscure, unbelievable (and sometimes NSFW) words from talk shows, sitcoms, dramas, and just about anything else on TV. Captain Obvious Nolan: “Forgive me for being Captain [...]

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WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup

February 27, 2012

Every week, we pose a challenge: using any word of the day from the week, create a perfect tweet, otherwise known as a twoosh. If we like it, your tweet will appear on our blog. Here are our favorites from last week: [View the story "WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge - Week of February 20, 2012" [...]

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This Week’s Language Blog Roundup

February 24, 2012

Welcome to this week’s Language Blog Roundup, in which we bring you the highlights from our favorite language blogs and the latest in word news and culture. We don’t know about you, but we’ve gone into Downton Abbey-withdrawal since Sunday’s season finale. Luckily, to tide us over till next season, we have pieces from Ben [...]

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Word Soup: Movie Words

February 22, 2012

With the Academy Awards just a few days away, we’ve had movies and movie words on the mind. What better way to celebrate than with this special Word Soup dedicated to film slang and lingo? Abby Singer “‘Abby Singer’ is director slang for the ‘next to the last shot,’ and takes its name from an [...]

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WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup

February 20, 2012

Every week, we pose a challenge: using any word of the day from the week, create a perfect tweet, otherwise known as a twoosh. If we like it, your tweet will appear on our blog. Here are our favorites from last week: [View the story "WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge - Week of February 13, 2012" [...]

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Word Soup: Downton Abbey

February 15, 2012

Chances are you’re caught up on the anachronisms of Downton Abbey, between Ben Zimmer’s Visual Thesaurus post, his talk with NPR, his post for Language Log that goes beyond the nitpickery, and Fritnancy’s post on the 1918 anachronism, contact. But what about the words and phrases the show has gotten right? From obsolete medical terms [...]

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WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup

February 13, 2012

Every week, we pose a challenge: using any word of the day from the week, create a perfect tweet, otherwise known as a twoosh. If we like it, your tweet will appear on our blog. Here are our favorites from last week: [View the story "WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge - Week of February 6, 2012" [...]

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