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Uitwaaien, or Outblowing, Is the Dutch Cure for the Winter Blues

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Uitwaaien, or Outblowing, Is the Dutch Cure for the Winter Blues

40 Words That Start With X

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40 Words That Start With X

11 Secrets of Lexicographers

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11 Secrets of Lexicographers

15 Words That Aren’t As Straightforward As They Look

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15 Words That Aren’t As Straightforward As They Look

Dad Joke, Tallboy, and 531 More Words Are Now in Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary

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12 Old-Fashioned Insults We Should Bring Back

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Farther vs. Further: There’s an Easy Way to Remember the Difference, and When to Use Which

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New Google Earth Feature Lets Users Listen to Endangered Indigenous Languages From Around the World

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Why 'Run' Is The Most Complex Word in the English Language

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Scholar Claims the Voynich Manuscript Is Written in a 'Proto-Romance' Language

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17 Job Titles in Victorian Slang

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23 Notoriously Unrhymable Words (That Actually Have Rhymes)

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11 Totally Redundant Place Names

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Can You Tell an Author’s Identity By Looking at Punctuation Alone? A Study Just Found Out.

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10 Endangered Alphabets You Should See Before It's Too Late

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11 Suffixes That Gave Us New, Often Terrible Words

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