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Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
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Carolina VonKampen đ Freelance Editor @ #ACES2026
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It's bright and early at
#ACES2026
, but we're up for the first session of the day: "Creating an Icon: The Making of the New Collegiate Dictionary" by
@petersokolowski.bsky.social
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#amediting
#freelanceeditor
#editorsky
#language
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#ACESDictionary
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FYI, new (never released live) 1960 Oscar Peterson just dropped:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-eK...
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Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (Live)
YouTube video by Oscar Peterson Trio - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-eKOj_qlho&list=OLAK5uy_mSBUNPlwzXYq-aHGI-SFqhyrcTLS9EW4E&index=17
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Carolina VonKampen đ Freelance Editor @ #ACES2026
4 days ago
I'm looking forward to
#ACES2026
sessions by
@rhiannonroot.bsky.social
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@petersokolowski.bsky.social
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@apstylebook.com
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@gerrrib.bsky.social
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@redpenrabbit.bsky.social
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@meperl.bsky.social
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@methodicplum.bsky.social
!
carolinavonkampen.com/aces-2026-an...
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#freelanceeditor
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ACES 2026 Sessions Iâm Looking Forward To Attending (And Why) - Carolina VonKampen
Read about the ACES 2026 sessions I'm looking forward to attending (boosting your editing efficiency, innuendos, style guides, and more)!
https://carolinavonkampen.com/aces-2026-anticipated-sessions/
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Anne Trubek
11 days ago
Poles eat an average of 2.5 pÄ czki per person on Fat Thursday!
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Jeff Sharlet
11 days ago
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater,
@hampshirecollege.bsky.social
, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
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Ethan Iverson
12 days ago
Hear hear
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Paul Cohen
13 days ago
France Gall won Eurovision
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Mignon Fogarty
16 days ago
And I'm sure some people will find this relatable: The candidate to be the creator of bitcoin "often confused 'itâs' and 'its.'"
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Mark Stryker
17 days ago
đ§”Thrilled to be a part of this wonderful celebration of Detroit jazz and delighted that Marcus Moore turned to so many of my friends and colleagues from the Motor City for the picks. If folks want to go deeper (and I know you do!) please check out ...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/a...
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Detroit Jazz
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/arts/music/detroit-jazz-music.html?smid=bs-share
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Some great new deep-diving etymologies lately: "Another English variant, 'gabagool,' shows southern Italian laxing of voiceless stops and weakening or deletion of the final vowel (compare 'agita,' 'arugula,' 'goombah')."
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
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Definition of CAPICOLA
a seasoned Italian pork that is cut from the neck and top shoulder, that is often brined and sometimes baked or roasted, and that is cured in a casing âcalled also capocollo, coppa⊠See the full defin...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capicola
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Kirkdale Bookshop
17 days ago
I once threw a Japanese novel out of the window because the translator thought there was a saxophonist called Lee Conitz.
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Lane Greene
18 days ago
Thrilled to be nominated for a Webby for Animation, for the shorts based on my language columns. Huge thanks to my brilliant Economist Video colleagues. We're up against the Death Star: help us beat Disney! Stick your vote right up the old exhaust port.
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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Johnson's Dictionary Online
18 days ago
Middest. superl. of mid, middest, midst. Yet the stout fairy âmongst the middest crowd, Thought all their glory vain in knightly view. Spenser.
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Ben Zimmer
19 days ago
For this year's Crossword Con on Fri. Apr. 10, I'll be giving a talk on "Adventures in Gridspotting" at 11:15 am ET. Come join us in person (or watch the livestream)!
www.crosswordcon.com
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Honest question: are there words that you need to look up every time you encounter them? Words that are at once familiar (you've seen before) but out-of-focus (they send you to the dictionary)? I bet all of us have one or two like this. For me one such word is 'militate.' What are yours?
19 days ago
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Mark Madsen (former boy, reluctant scrivener)
19 days ago
I found a style guide for writing from the air force academy officer training program while cleaning out some folders. Itâs decades old, encourages simple language, like not using âfatuous numbskullâ when âjerkâ will do
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Yes. The hyphen in the phonetic transcription is the syllable break. The center dot in the respelling is the line break for typesetting.
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22 days ago
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The semantic overlap in the origins of 'heathen' and 'pagan':
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mise en a Beemer
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23 days ago
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Dr Dean Burnett
23 days ago
You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.
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Jack Lynch
23 days ago
Look, itâs simple. I have my copy of
@korystamper.bsky.social
âs new book and you donât have yours. So I win.
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Sonja Drimmer
23 days ago
Sat in a waiting room in Worcester for fifteen minutes and was just baptized in a deep well of Mass accents. So blessed.
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Prof. Allie Alvis đ·
24 days ago
đšJOB KLAXON! The Winterthur Library is hiring a collections processor for the manuscript collection!
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Career Search
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Andy Hollandbeck
23 days ago
I concur. A parallel hyphenation problem that I see way too often is with "all-time." The all-time-greatest editor is NOT the greatest editor of all-time, but the greatest editor of all time.
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EditorMark
23 days ago
I see no use for a hyphen in "in depth" at the end of a senctence: The subject of an in-depth article was interviewed in depth. AP Stylebook, Merriam-Webster, and American Heritage are silent, but Oxford's dictionaries enter the older, unhyphenated version. Recent usage trends toward hyphenation.
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Emily Nussbaum
23 days ago
The idiom "easy as pie" should mean "you know, it would be much easier to just buy one"
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Johnson's Dictionary Online
23 days ago
Maundy-thursday. n.s. [derived by Spelman from mande, a hand-basket, in which the king was accustomed to give alms to the poor.] The Thursday before Good-friday.
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April Fool
YouTube video by Matt Monro - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UscOrZH--rU&list=RDUscOrZH--rU&start_radio=1
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April Fool's hits different now, because we have learned that every day we cannot believe what we read or what we see with our own eyes.
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24 days ago
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Michael Schulman
24 days ago
And now another reason not to touch the stuff: the strong possibility that you will end up plagiarizing, whether you know it or not. But it was the "that is going to go away" attitude that rankled the most. That's the tech credo: anything that takes time or I don't understand must be obsolete.
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Emma Pearson
24 days ago
In 2020, Paris allowed cafĂ©s to expand terraces into the street & parking spaces Then people realised that sitting chatting with pals while drinking beer is a much better use of the public space than storing a car there Now temporary terraces come back every summer (with some form-filling). SantĂ© đ»
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Paris' extended café terraces return for summer 2026
Originally brought in a temporary Covid-related measure, expanded café terraces have now become a fixture of Paris in the summer, and this year once again return on April 1st.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20220329/paris-extended-cafe-terraces-return-for-the-summer
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Sonja Drimmer
24 days ago
For no reason other than fun. This is my profileâs banner image & itâs a photo I took from an inventory of a London church copied in the 1480s. The text is in Middle English & reads âolde ymages.â Itâs a subject heading for a list of old sculptures kept in the churchâs storage. I love it very much.
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Mignon Fogarty
25 days ago
Happy book birthday to Kory Stamper's TRUE COLOR! (I got to talk to her a couple of weeks ago about this fabulous, fascinating book, and you can hear that conversation Thursday on the Grammar Girl podcast.)
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Michael Metivier
26 days ago
A good size comparison between a hairy woodpecker (first, larger) and a downy woodpecker both eating at the feeder in succession, both black-and-white birds with similar markings and (in the males) a red patch on the back of the head. đȘ¶
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A whole article on how to pronounce 'Thoreau':
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/b...
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Rethinking Thoreau: Weâve Been Mispronouncing His Name for Centuries
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/books/review/thoreau-pronunciation-documentary.html
26 days ago
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Mededitor
27 days ago
âIrregardlessâ is a word.
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Kurt Andersen
26 days ago
My friend last week the day he turned 100.
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Paul Cohen
26 days ago
CEO refused to learn French though it is a statutory requirement for the position
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Wim Remysen
29 days ago
Ă Milan, on prend le chocolat de PĂąques trĂšs au sĂ©rieux đ€©
#marchesi
#milano
#lombardia
#italia
#photographie
#photography
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Jonathon Owen
30 days ago
I honestly don't know why I never realized this.
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Kurt Andersen
29 days ago
My first job out of college was writing Gene Shalit's daily minute-and-a-half NBC Radio Network commentary. Great gig, amazing boss. He just had his 100th birthday, healthy and chipper and reading as voraciously as ever. Huzzah! From a book foreword I wrote in 2014, the passage celebrating him.
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JudithFlanders
29 days ago
Anyone know someone who does family-history research professionally? I'm looking for someone to track down some people from the 1940s: expertise in UK/German post-war field. Please do cross-post.
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John Gallagher
29 days ago
Randle Cotgrave's 1611 French definition of the day: 'Desrobber. To steale, filch, pilfer, picke, nimme, purloine; slyly to lurch, privily to take, secretly to withdraw, from.'
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Michael Kusek
30 days ago
Things would generally be better if our game shows were more like they were in the 70s.
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don't tell Breisgau
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Neil Serven
about 1 month ago
Tracy Kidder had quite a literary presence in the Pioneer Valley , where I live. âHouseâ is a great book about the building of a house in Amherst; âHome Townâ is about Northampton; âAmong Schoolchildrenâ tells of a classroom of kids in Holyoke.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...
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Tracy Kidder, Author of âThe Soul of a New Machine,â Dies at 80
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html
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Ann Leckie
about 1 month ago
(Insert rant about how "correct grammar" is often not a question of good usage but a matter of displaying the correct class signifier. I do not have the brains for that rant.)
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MIT Press
about 1 month ago
For a little while there we were out of Miya Ando's beautiful book "Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Rain Words." But it's back in stock now, just in time for spring!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204986...
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