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    All Tech Considered
    Dogspotting keeps its users from getting political. In this post, the black and white dog shown is said to be at a Planned Parenthood rally, but not stating any political allegiance.
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    Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers

    Apr 23, 2017
    DoggoLingo is a rising language on the Internet that's full of cutesy suffixes and onomatopoeias. It might even change the way you talk to your pet.
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    Author Interviews
    A galley proof shows some of the work that went into adding "ginormous" to Merriam-Webster's 2007 collegiate dictionary.
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    From 'F-Bomb' To 'Photobomb,' How The Dictionary Keeps Up With English

    Apr 19, 2017
    For a new word to enter the dictionary, it must meet three criteria: widespread use, sustained use and meaningful use. Merriam-Webster lexicographer Kory Stamper explains the process in Word by Word.
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    The Two-Way
    The Gotham of the "grammar vigilante": Bristol, U.K.
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    The 'Grammar Vigilante': Defender Of Truth, Justice And The Grammarian Way

    Apr 03, 2017
    Wielding his handy "apostrophiser," this "Banksy of punctuation" stalks the streets of Bristol at night, reclaiming the British city's street signs for good — one corrected apostrophe at a time.
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    The Two-Way
    The little mark at the heart of it all.
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    The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases

    Mar 16, 2017
    An appeals court dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers came down to a single punctuation mark — or rather, the lack of it. Count it a win for the controversial comma.
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    Shots - Health News
    The name hippocampus comes from the Greek word for seahorse. It's a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory.
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    The Seahorse In Your Brain: Where Body Parts Got Their Names

    Dec 16, 2016
    What are those dog ears doing on my heart? Ancient anatomists named body parts after things they resembled in real life. So you've got a rooster comb in your skull and a flute in your leg.
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    Politics
    Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listen as he speaks during a campaign rally in October in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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    Trump Supporters to Detractors: 'Pull Up Your Panties' And Stop Whining

    Dec 10, 2016
    Despite skepticism of Trump — and losing the popular vote — his supporters say it's time to move on and trust the president-elect to figure things out. They're willing to give him a very long leash.
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    Commentary
    Linguist Geoff Nunberg argues that the media's decision to bleep or otherwise block out a particular word can result in concealing information the public needs to know.
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    Not Fit To Print? When Politicians Talk Dirty, Media Scramble To Sanitize

    Oct 25, 2016
    Donald Trump isn't the first politician to use coarse language, but linguist Geoff Nunberg says the 2005 Access Hollywood tape of him discussing women's genitalia wasn't like other live-mic incidents.
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    A leaked video showed Donald Trump (pictured with 'Days of Our Lives' actress Arianne Zucker and then-Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush) bragging about groping women.
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    Calling Trump's Bragging What It Is; Election Coverage: Sept. 25 – Oct. 8

    Oct 14, 2016
    What language should NPR have used to describe Donald Trump's comments in the leaked Access Hollywood video?
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    Shots - Health News
    Earlier studies have found that children who grow up in houses with a TV on many hours a day learn fewer words than children in households with less TV time.
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    Turning Down The Background Noise Could Help Toddlers Learn

    Jul 21, 2016
    Being surrounded by noisy conversations, radio or TV can make it harder for toddlers to learn new words, researchers say. Quieter conversations didn't affect the learning process.
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    Shots - Health News
    MRI scans suggests words stimulate different regions of the brain depending on their meaning.
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    Scans Show 'Brain Dictionary' Groups Words By Meaning

    Apr 27, 2016
    Brain maps constructed by MRI show that language meaning is distributed throughout the brain's outer layer. And it turns out that different people organize language in similar ways.
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    The Two-Way
    A trip to Iceland wouldn't be complete without a dip in the Blue Lagoon, a man-made geothermal pool on Reykjanes peninsula.
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    #NPRreads: 3 Stories To Soak Up This Weekend

    Apr 23, 2016
    The premise of #NPRreads is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading and each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.
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    The Two-Way
    The armed individuals occupying part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon include Ryan Bundy. On Thursday, he had a gun and a tape measure on his side. Bundy is the son of Cliven Bundy, whose 2014 armed standoff with the federal Bureau of La
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    Those Men In Oregon: Troublemakers, Terrorists Or Something Else?

    Jan 09, 2016
    Fans and foes want the news media to label the armed individuals who are occupying part of a national wildlife refuge. NPR is trying to describe, rather than characterize. Here's our thinking.
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    All Tech Considered
    IBM's Watson analyzes a Twitter account of an unnamed user, breaking down needs, values and five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism (aka emotional range).
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    I Asked A Computer To Be My Life Coach

    Dec 22, 2015
    Your online habits leave a constant digital trail. What does it say about the real you? I gave the world's most famous computer keys to my online life to see what it could tell me, about me.
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    The Two-Way
    On Wednesday in Yangon, Myanmar, two police officers read about the elections that saw opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party win a majority of seats in parliament.
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    Myanmar Is Also Known As Burma, But We Won't Keep Repeating That

    Nov 14, 2015
    For years, it's been NPR's style to say that Myanmar is "also known as Burma" at the start of reports about that nation. We don't think that's necessary anymore.
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    Shots - Health News
    A vowel sound like "e" can still sound clear through the dense vegetation in Hawaii.
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    Did The Language You Speak Evolve Because Of The Heat?

    Nov 06, 2015
    People speak very differently depending on where they live, and the climate and environment might have something to do with that. Crisp English consonants don't carry well in the rain forest.
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    Shots - Health News
    Before becoming an interpreter at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, Calif., Brigida Gonzalez (right) worked in the strawberry fields.
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    Hospitals Struggle To Help Farmworkers Who Speak Triqui Or Mixteco

    Sep 29, 2015
    One-third of farmworkers in California speak indigenous languages from southern Mexico. Many don't speak Spanish or English, a situation that poses challenges for health care providers.
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    The Two-Way
    Essentials are necessary. Replicas are exact. An exodus is a mass movement of people. These are just a few of the many pleonasms heard and written each day.
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    Please Don't Have A Temper Tantrum About The Pleonasm In This Headline

    Sep 19, 2015
    Does it grate on your ears if you're offered a "free gift?" Would you have a "sudden impulse" to correct that grammar? Pleonasms have unnecessary, superfluous words. Tell us about the ones you hear.
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    3 Things To Know About NPR's Policy Regarding Offensive Language

    Jul 25, 2015
    There are times when obscene words are heard, but they are rare. Editors balance respect for listeners against the news value of the language.
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    Goats and Soda
    Maria Nieves Nashnato Upari and Jose Manuel Huaymacari Tamani are teaching Kukama to children in hopes of keeping their "maternal language" alive.
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    To Resurrect A Vanishing Language, Try YouTube and Indiegogo

    Jul 11, 2015
    A community in the Amazon tries to save its disappearing language with classes for kids, a rap video, radio broadcasts and an online fundraiser.
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    The Two-Way
    Thomas Jefferson, president, statesman and principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
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    Just A Few Important Words About The 'Declaration Of Independence'

    Jul 04, 2015
    Along with the words and phrases that still ring out 239 years later are less noticed turns of phrase. They say a lot about the messages Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers wanted to send.
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    Goats and Soda
    In their Tuscon home, Linken and Greg Kay have shelves full of books in Esperanto, including these picture books.
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    Esperanto Is Not Dead: Can The Universal Language Make A Comeback?

    Jun 13, 2015
    A hundred years ago, a Polish physician created a language that anyone could learn easily. The hope was to bring the world closer together. Today Esperanto speakers say it's helpful during travel.
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    The Two-Way
    Is it "iced tea" or "ice tea"?
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    Here Are 100 'Eggcorns' That We Say Pass Mustard

    Jun 01, 2015
    Several thousand people sent NPR examples of their favorite eggcorns — words or phrases that are mistakenly used but still make some sense. We read them all and picked some of the best.
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    The Two-Way

    'Eggcorns': The Gaffes That Spread Like Wildflowers

    May 30, 2015
    An eggcorn is a word or phrase that isn't right, but makes some sense. It's among more than 1,700 words Merriam-Webster just added to its dictionary. What are your favorite eggcorns?
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    Shots - Health News

    Does A Foreign Accent Mess Up Our Memory Of What's Said?

    May 18, 2015
    It can be hard to decipher what a non-native speaker is saying. But that might not always be a bad thing when it comes to understanding or remembering, scientists say.
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    All Tech Considered
    The first line of <em>Emoji Dick</em>
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    As Emoji Spread Beyond Texts, Many Remain [Confounded Face] [Interrobang]

    May 04, 2015
    There's a growing tendency to bring the tiny hieroglyphs off of phones, but not everyone is fluent. New takes on emoji integration suggest misunderstanding may be remedied with universal translation.
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