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Review
Words to study and become more familiar with.
phatic, tontine, backronym, polyptoton, fissiparous, deus ex machina, orrery, prolly, mad props, snog, oubliette, copyleft and 101 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for metonic calendar.
mollusque Avocation rather than hobby? Aug 6, 2008
john So it looks like the Times now displays the date a story appears on the website up top, and a the date it's published in the print paper at the end of the online version. Check it out. Aug 6, 2008
bilby *waves from the other side of international date line* Jul 31, 2008
reesetee Good eye, sionnach! Didn't even notice the date. Perhaps the Times could invest in a WABAC machine.
Oh wait...a WAFORWARD machine?
Jul 30, 2008
john Funny you mention that sionnach, lately there's been a lot of talk about that here*. Current policy is that the dateline at the beginning of stories reflect the day on which it appears in the print paper. But as more and more stories are posted prior to print publication, this is becoming more and more absurd. My guess is that eventually online stories will display both their print and online publication dates, but I have no idea if that'll definitely happen, or when.
We do have a time machine, but it only goes backwards.
* I work at the Times. I don't speak for them in any way, and Wordie is a strictly personal... hobby, I guess. Though that doesn't seem the right word. Jul 30, 2008
sionnach Is the New York Times publishing from the future now? Or is some obscure, calendar-related point being made?
The Times has been doing this a lot lately - so much so that I sometimes have to double-check that I haven't somehow slept through a whole 24-hour news cycle, and that both my kidneys are still intact. But where did all this ice water in the bathtub come from. And why are those stitches in my .......?
I forgot - thanks, John. Jul 30, 2008
reesetee Interesting article. Thanks for the link, John. Jul 30, 2008
john "No month names on what is called the Metonic calendar were previously known, the researchers noted. Such a calendar, as well as other knowledge displayed on the mechanism, illustrated the influence of Babylonian astronomy on the Greeks. The calendar was used by Babylonians from at least the early fifth century B.C."
The New York Times, Workings of Ancient ‘Computer’ Deciphered, by John Noble Wilford, July 31, 2008 Jul 30, 2008