mcdspot

As weird as they may sound, I’m a fan of the Spivak pronouns.

predatory equity.

GLURGE

know it well.

The Oxford University Press Word of the Year has been announced: unfriend.

“Donaudampfschiffahrtselek-
trizitaetenhauptbetriebswerk-
bauunterbeamtengesellschaft”

English: Association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services. This is an example of the virtually unlimited compounding of nouns that is possible in many Germanic languages; with 79 letters, according to the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records, it is the longest word published in the German language

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Need to diagram a sentence? Look no further.

Visuwords is fun and darn if you can’t learn a thing or three.

This is what you get when you Twitter the U.S. Constitution

Pre-A: We the people R the man. Here’s how it rolls. Art1: Congress do law. Got Senate/House-o-Reps.

HR 2yr deal. Reps mst b 25, homie citz 7yrs. 1R per 30k pop/min 1R per St. St pop #s @10yrs. Guv pix subs. HR pix own bigs. HR impeaches Clinton.

Sen 6yr deal. 1/3 go @2yrs. 2Ss/St Mst b 30, homie citz 9yrs. VP tiebreaks. S gives Clinton a bye.

$ Bills fr H & pass S w/amends. Prez mst X or nix. 2/3H&S 2 nix nix

Cong power = Tax Mooch Tariff Green crd Chapt 11 Print $ Bust cons Pat pend Law up War on Hang pirates.

Cong power not = No habeas corp No x post facto law Free trade 4 Sts. Kings dukes for. poofters R bogus.

Sts pow not = For. treats Cust. duties @ other Sts. Go 2 war w/o say please
Art2: Prez 4yrs per Elec Col SAT score VP ditto VP subs. mst b nat born homie 35. Defnds Const & CnC Army Navy Air Force Marines

Prez pow = For. treats w 2/3S yes Appts Cabnt offs Ambs Sup Ct Js DoD brass w S yes Hi Cong Bye Cong St-o-Un add. No smoking.

Art3: Sup Ct rox Treason sux. Art4: Sts R cool Newbie Sts per Cong. Art5: Amend Con=2/3H&S+3/4Sts. Art6: US IOUs cool Const rox No God Squad

Art7: G2G TTFN. 9/17/1787. Bill-o-Rites TK

Flame on -church+guns. No GIs n cribz. No frisk w/o ProbCawz Due Pross rox Plea5th Get off my lawn SpeedTrialz w/jur&shystr. Pwr 2 D Peeps.

thx mom!

Get your jargon right or I’ll make you do the dance of the flaming rooster.

Wordnik is an ongoing project devoted to discovering
all the words and everything about them.

Here are the 100 most beautiful words in the English language, according to one Robert Beard. I’m inclined to agree with him.

Insouciance.

Peccadillo.

Seraglio.

Diaphanous.

Thanks Caroline!

Here is a list of 168 definitions of obscure color terms for your perusal.

The elements of telling a good story, by Ira Glass, host of “This American Life.”

The Great Vowel Shift was a “major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in the south of England between 1200 and 1600,” which brought about the transformation form Middle to Modern English. Fascinating chart and explanation at the link.

This text-to-speech generator is done rather well.

A 17,826 Word Palindromic Sentence.

Lake Superior State University’s banished words List

If you’re wondering how to pronounce je ne sais qua (and I know you are), try forvo.