words
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AP: Don’t Call Them ‘Climate Change Deniers’ Anymore Because Of The Holocaust
On the last day of the hottest summer in recorded history, the Associated Press made a rather timely announcement: We are no longer supposed to use the terms “climate change sceptics” or “climate change deniers” to label people who disagree the Earth is warming due to human activity.
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Video Explains The Origin And Evolution Of The Word ‘Dude’
What do you think of when you hear the word dude? The Big Lebowski? Surfers? Maybe even just one of your friends. Or maybe it’s yourself! But do you ever think about a man in a top hat wearing skinny pants pretending to be an Englishman from 1883? That’s how the term dude was first…
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Every Single Word In Star Wars Sorted Alphabetically In One Video
Some crazy/amazing person has sorted every single word in Star Wars alphabetically in one 43-minute-long video. And here’s one surprising fact: The movie only features the word “lightsaber” once. How weird is that?
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Selfie Is Officially The 2013 Word Of The Year
Time to fire up Instagram and party like it’s, um, 2013, because ‘selfie’ has been named the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year.