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Get Thee to a Dictionary

By Jenna Remley                 I use the word (or contraction, depending on how you look at it) ‘y’all.’ ‘Y’all’ is most commonly used in the American South, and more broadly in dialects of African American English, but I am white and I’ve lived in C…

Pandemic Vocabulary Fatigue

By Jenna Remley           People have strong feelings about even the most inane words - a shudder when hearing ‘moist,’ an annoyance with ‘like’ being used as a filler, a righteous anger at the redundancy of ‘irregardless.’ But over the past year, I h…

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