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Lexification
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Lexification is a publication dedicated to the love of all aspects of word formation, from the invention of words themselves to the tools used to create and share them.
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Announcing the first major Lexification series. We’ll explore a bunch of fun ways that we can sort words and phrases.

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February 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Ooh…This will be a weekend listen.
lingthusiasm.bsky.social Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.bsky.social · Feb 7
Sometimes, a phrase just leaps off the page and lodges in your mind. Other times, your eyes wander away from the words no matter how hard you try

This ep: what makes for beautiful writing from a psycholinguistic perspective, with @juliesedivy.bsky.social author of Memory Speaks and Linguaphile
Bonus 96: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking | Lingthusiasm
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February 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Word of the day: autogolpe

A self-coup, also called an autocoup or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power through illegal means through the actions of themselves and/or their supporters.
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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The Chicago Style Workouts are an easy and free way to improve your writing and editing. And they’ve been updated!

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February 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I’ve been wanting to move to an e-ink display and get away from Apple Books, taking my DRM-free epubs with me. But what do people use to read epubs? I’ve looked for alternatives to Apple Books in the past but have always been disappointed by the experience.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
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February 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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We continue our look at new words in the OED by looking at words from Japan and Korea.

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February 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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English publishers of 1928 had a poor understanding of “world” poetry, but we come out with some gems. This week, it is two poems from the Italian Noble Laureate of 1906, Giosu**è** Carducci.

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February 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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A video recommendation: Martin Gore of Depeche Mode and Dave Huxtable are two blokes discussing learning languages and British and American English. Good times!

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January 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Today we start a new occasional series called What Would Experts Do?, where we take a random look at a style or usage guide. Today, we look at the pronunciation of *Uranus*. He he. Uranus.

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January 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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In this (slightly late) episode of Type Tuesday, we start exploring Unicode characters from a practical angle.

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January 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We have several words of the week as we look at new words in the OED from Ghana and Nigeria.

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January 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Our piece this week is “In Praise of Idioms”, from 1927.

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January 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Today’s episode is a quick introduction to one of the most fascinating podcasts ever, The Allusionist.

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January 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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In the fourth and final part of the intro series, I explain some of the inspirations and influences for Lexification.

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January 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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For the first Tool Tuesday we look at the application I use to type episodes of Lexification, Scrivener.

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January 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The Word of the Week is one that brings to mind the Lumon workforce in *Severance*.

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January 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Learn about all of the words of the year from 2024, and a few that didn’t make the cut, in today’s episode. #words #vocabulary #usage

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January 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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In this episode I recommend a new young adult novel, Olivetti, that stars a sentient typewriter.

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January 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Announcing Lexification, a publication dedicated to the love of all aspects of word formation, from the invention of words themselves to the tools used to create and share them.

Lexification is published on YouTube, Patreon, and Medium.

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Lexification
Writing advice and word fun. Written by a human, typed by a human, and (sometimes) narrated by a human. Lexification is a publication dedicated to the love of all aspects of word formation, from the…
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January 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM