"Worldwide Words"
Interesting English words and all things related.

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The smallest of samples:

Words:

All my eye and Betty Martin; All wool and a yard wide; Allohistory; Almanac;
Aluminium versus aluminum; Ambient; Ambient advertising; America In So Many
Words (book review); American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition;
Amperkine; An Exceedance of Impactful Ignorals; Analemmatic; Anamorphosis;
Android; Andropause; Anfractuosity; Anorakish; Ansible; Antarctic Dictionary
(book review); Apology; Apoptosis; Apostrophes; Apple of one's eye; April;
Archaeon; Areologist; Arfanarf; Argey-bargey; Arithmetic symbols; Arms
akimbo; Arsenal; Artefact versus artifact; Artilect; As well be hanged for a
sheep as a lamb; Ascian; Asian Brown Cloud; Astrobleme; Asylo; Asymmetrical
warfare; At sign, @; At sixes and sevens; Ataraxy; Atrabilious; Aubergine;
Aunt Sally; Autohagiography; Auxetic


Articles:

Balderdash and flummery: A few words from Welsh
Beam me up, Scotty!: The linguistic legacy of Star Trek
Between the Lines: Some railway words
Bissextile, Intercalary, Embolistic: Some leap year words
Chosen words: The language of elections
Cider Insight: The jargon of an ancient craft

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