A fun example from the 1920s that is still in MW: “the bee’s knees.”

My favorite was when his wife caught him kissing the chambermaid and exclaimed “Why Noah, I’m surprised!” He replied “You are astonished, madam; I am surprised.”

I like you. Let’s be friends.

The title of that book is making all my nerdy neurons fire. Book lust has been triggered.

We should all invest in companies that manufacture popcorn machines. Stormy Daniels wants her NDA invalidated.

Most commercial dictionaries are run by non-academics these days, though academics are consulted by most all. There exist “usage panels” for some. OED is the reference of record for etymologies, first-use citations, etc., etc. There are also law dictionaries, medical dictionaries, etc., as well as translating…

Ahhh, no worries. Words are fun to play with (but truth matters).

Oops! Anyways, it’s a joke..............feel free to substitute

Sorry, but Daniel Webster was the politician. Noah Webster was the lexicographer. The rest of the story sounds pretty apocryphal, I’m afraid.

Noted lexicographer Daniel Webster was walking along the beach one day, when a man came up to him and said, “Mr. Webster, did you know that the word ‘sugar’ is the only case in the English language where the combination of ‘s’ and ‘u’ produce an ‘sh’ sound? Ol’ Dan thought about this for a bit, and replied, “Are you…

“The dictionary,” by which I mean the huge groups of academics responsible for writing the various different dictionaries, remove words all the time that they consider to be obsolete. The exception is the Oxford English Dictionary, which has a different job than your standard desk reference - while your Merriam…

The only thing that’ll survive us is our trash, which is fitting.

You’re assuming all the dumpsters don’t melt in the fireball!

More or less. Lexicographers look for citations in print to gauge meaning, first use and ‘staying power,’ amongst other considerations. Kory Stamper [lexicographer, and associate editor of the M-W Dictionary] wrote a book last year called Word for Word: the Secret Life of Dictionaries, which does a great job of…

If I am mathing right, that still leave 15%. Who are they? The voters who think he is sane? Are there any of those left?

Remember 25% of Trump voters think Trump is nuts but would still vote for him over any Dem according to BBC’s Panorama.

40% is still too damn high.

“Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!”

From one government employee to another, thank you!!!

As someone who has worked in the government before, this is something that they hammer you on as a workerbee hard and often that openly campaigning publicly for a canidate while in employ of the Federal Government is grounds for dismissal and other punishments.

Things we were told we can’t do:
-Put a sign in our yard…