Explore Wordnik, The World's Biggest Online English Dictionary – Observer ObserverExplore Wordnik, The World's Biggest Online English DictionaryObserverwordnik Explore Wordnik, The Worlds Biggest Online English Dictionary. Wordnik is busy hunting through 361 billion words of English for a million ones not yet in any dictionary. But it has plenty on hand already, with definitions, examples, […]

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Wesleyan Student Government Retaliates for Dumb Op-Ed By Dramatically Slashing … – Jezebel JezebelWesleyan Student Government Retaliates for Dumb Op-Ed By Dramatically Slashing …JezebelBack in September, Wesleyan's 147-year-old student newspaper the Argus published an op-ed criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement. The article, written by a sophomore, featured lines like “It is plausible that Black […]

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Johnson: Lost in translation – The Economist (blog) Johnson: Lost in translationThe Economist (blog)The answer may be lost in translation. The term in question, the second word in the French “paiement déloyal”, can mean both “disloyal” (un ami déloyal, a disloyal friend, for example) and “denoting a lack of good faith or of honesty”, according […]

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Savannah can learn from Charleston concierge – Savannah Morning News Savannah can learn from Charleston conciergeSavannah Morning NewsThe group from Charleston wanted to see how we, in Savannah, organize concierge in our city. When the Tourism Leadership Council started the Coastal Concierge Association in 2012, we set out to bring people who work in lodging […]