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bestie (n.): a person's best friend; a very close friend. It would be unsurprising to hear a teenage girl use this cutesy word to describe her very best friend in the whole wide world.
Soul dualism, also called dualistic pluralism or multiple souls, is a range of beliefs that a person has two or more kinds of souls. In many cases,...
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In Europe and America, grey is the color most associated with boredom, loneliness and emptiness. It is associated with rainy days and winter. Dec...
Read More »This week, the Oxford English Dictionary made the most exciting announcement a dictionary can: new words had been weighed, measured and added to the historical catalog. On the surface, it might seem like just a list of new entries and sub-entries. But words that have been around long enough to get into the OED pack more context than meets the eye. And some in this addition have an obvious theme: women. You know, those people who craft language and use language in powerful ways, even when they don’t know it. Here are three new word entries in the OED and a few things they can teach us about how culture and language collide.
The three day rule is a dating strategy that suggests waiting three days to call your date after you go out. The theory is that waiting three days...
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Polar twins. Polar twins share the same chromosomes from their birthing parent, but they get different chromosomes from their non-birthing parent....
Read More »dead white male (n.): a dead Caucasian male writer, philosopher, etc., whose pre-eminence, esp. in academic study, is challenged as disproportionate to his cultural significance, and attributed to a historical bias towards his gender and ethnic group. The argument inherent in this dismissive term is that there has been too much focus on the things dead white men have done or said or written, especially in academia. If one felt that Herman Melville’s genius was overblown, for instance, one might refer to Moby Dick as “a big fat book by a dead white male about a big fat white sea mammal.” “It fits into the 1970s to the present awareness of gender issues and a critique of how we use language and what we study,” says Martin; its a word that “identifies the fact that, historically, the work of white European males has been privileged over the work of other people.” The really notable detail about this entry, she says, is that the editors decided to include it. Niche ideas discussed by a few people have no place in the dictionary: “When things go in the OED, it tends to be because they’ve been around for so long that it’s now a concept we’ve actually adopted widely.” That is to say, the very fact of its inclusion in the OED means a lot of people believe—or have at least discussed the possibility—that dead white men get too much attention. Such is the power of a dictionary update, on its face just a mostly boring list of 900 words. (Speaking of updates and things that are not boring, one particularly female–and typically vulgar–word referring to a woman’s anatomy got a little more space in this year’s dictionary when variations of the C-word were added. Here’s a brief history of that particular term.)
A comparison with DNA from unaffected patients showed an abnormality in the sequences. Thayer's study shows that the ADHD group of children had...
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The first answer is simple: To fulfill his divine plan. God's ultimate plan is that we live forever with him in his kingdom. When we give our lives...
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If the 7th house is afflicted, associated, conjoined or aspected by any malefic planet, then there are high chances of divorce in your Kundli. If...
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Free Online Drawing Classes Kline Creative. The free online drawing lessons at Kline Creative website are designed for beginners of any age, from...
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