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Reading a word involves complex interactions between spelling, meaning, and sound. Researchers from Japan and Canada explore ...
I spent most of my life dreading a future that hadn’t yet come, mourning a past that had long since gone and forgetting that ...
Manufacturers should be required to print legible expiration dates on each product as this could be a health issue at times.
Has there ever been a more essential moment for a documentary than one about the making of Ms. magazine? Though it was ...
George and Martha followed signs pointing down a gravel road in Kentucky to an old country store that sold cold soft drinks.
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Have 1,500 words of fiction looking for a home? Polish them up by mid-July and enter them in the second annual Word Festival ...
The first printed definition of hillbillies appeared 125 years ago, on April 23, 1900, in the New York Journal ... word undoubtedly became part of spoken language before it appeared in print.
Community is the magic word when you’re trying to sell its negation ... What if we did it in print? So, thanks to the support of the Arts Council, we made fallow, the first issue of which ...
Asbah, your love for The Journal is contagious ... Wardah, you were always two steps ahead. In a time where print is fading, your foresight ensured our words never ran out of pages to land on. Meg, ...
It was a festive day with crowds celebrating The Journal’s future as a pillar of the "press" – in both meanings of the word. Except now ... eight-hour shifts to print all sections of the ...
See if you can determine when these words first appeared in print, per the Oxford English Dictionary, in the quiz below. If dating words seems like a daunting task, it was. The first edition of ...