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		<title>Meanwhile Over At McSweeneys&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin McCellan has started a series of essays on typography over at McSweeneys, delving into its history, mythology and influence. Lovely stuff.]]></description>
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		<title>Misplaced Apostrophes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin, the marketing guru, asked today if he&#8217;s the only one who takes issue with misplaced apostrophes and so forth. The answer is no. I&#8217;m bothered by it too. My pet peeve is vented in Than NOT Then, and I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time wondering where I should stand on the issue of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewordjunkie.com/grammar-nazi/misplaced-apostrophes/</link>
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		<title>Margaret Gelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has an obituary of Margaret Gelling, an expert on English place names. She was a neat, keen, merry woman, “prissy” as she described herself, and sensibly shod and clad. The gear was appropriate for slopping through slæp, fenn, myrr and slohtre (the disappointing origin of Upper and Lower Slaughter), or stomping through leah, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewordjunkie.com/etymology/margaret-gelling/</link>
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		<title>The New Yorker Funnies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In May 25th 2009 issue of The New Yorker there are two cartoons that could have been commissioned for theWORDjunkie. Decimate and talk dirty.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewordjunkie.com/humour/the-new-yorker-funnies/</link>
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		<title>The Wire Does Grammar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wire, Season 1, Episode 7—One Arrest The beginning of this episode opens with the team analysing a conversation they&#8217;ve intercepted on the phone. In itself it&#8217;s interesting the way the dealers are using a language code, which the cops have to crack, but six minutes forty seconds into the episode, the fun begins. McNulty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stolid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a strange word. Root: Obsolete French, stolide, or Latin stolidus, perhaps meaning foolish. Definition: Calm, dependable. One who shows little emotion, doesn&#8217;t get animated. Examples: Contrary to the typical rock star performance, Roy Orbison&#8217;s on-stage persona was extraordinarily stolid. The Indian bureaucracy remains terribly inefficient and stolid, taking over 200 days to issue a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klingon&#8217;s Linguistic Heritage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of a stoic people, Slate writes about the lingustic origins of Klingon, the invented Star Trek mother-tongue of the Klingon people. The article is penned by Arika Okrent, who is the author of &#8220;In the Land of Invented Languages&#8221;.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewordjunkie.com/linguistic/klingons-linguistic-heritage/</link>
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		<title>Stoic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stoic has it&#8217;s origins in the philosophy of Stoicism, and to understand the word, we&#8217;re going to have to investigate the philosophy a little. Root: Greek, stōïkos, from the Athenian Stoa Poikilē, or Painted Porch, where Zeno taught the philosophy we know as stoicism. Definition: One who endures the ups and downs of life without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewordjunkie.com/definition/stoic/</link>
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		<title>Apostasy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Initial impressions&#8230; sounds like a curse&#8230; Root: Greek, apostasis, defection, literally away from, standing. Definition: In a religious or political context, to abandon belief. Examples: Apostasy of the Muslim religion carries a sentence of death. The sexual and physical abuses of the Catholic clergy during the last half-century have done more to promote apostasy than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewordjunkie.com/definition/apostasy/</link>
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		<title>Recidivism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Root: Latin, re + cadere, meaning back + to fall. Definition: To reoffend, particularly used of a convicted criminal. Examples: We call prisons &#8216;correctional facilities&#8217;. That&#8217;s a misnomer. The worth of the &#8216;correctional institute&#8217; should be measured by the rate of recidivism. His was a recidivistic character, immune to reform. twj says: Although dry and [...]]]></description>
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