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Nancy Friedman
Oakland, California
Fritinancy: a chirping or creaking, as of a cricket (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913 edition); formerly known as Away With Words.
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On the Visual Thesaurus: “The Hidden History of Coined Words”
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Name in the news: Kyndryl
Posted 3 days ago at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Ghost gun
Posted 5 days ago at Fritinancy
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Last last last last last call
Posted Apr 8, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: TFG
Posted Apr 5, 2021 at Fritinancy
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What’s its pronoun?
Posted Apr 2, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Cascatelli
Posted Mar 29, 2021 at Fritinancy
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March linkfest
Posted Mar 25, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Words of the week: Coronacoinages 2021
Posted Mar 22, 2021 at Fritinancy
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On the Visual Thesaurus: Spelling Bee!
OK, #hivemind, this one’s for you. My latest column for the Visual Thesaurus, “To Bee or Not to Bee?”, looks at the New York Times word-search puzzle that has become a popular pandemic pastime, both for solitary solvers and for social animals. Full access is restricted to subscribers—you know what... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Lingualer
Posted Mar 15, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Book-title mini-trend: The declarative sentence
Posted Mar 10, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: NFT
Posted Mar 8, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Nuts
Posted Mar 1, 2021 at Fritinancy
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February linkfest
Posted Feb 25, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Pandemicide
Posted Feb 22, 2021 at Fritinancy
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On the Visual Thesaurus: Amo, Amas, Amateur
Better late than never: my February column for the Visual Thesaurus is all about the loving origins of amateur. I’d submitted it in time for pre-Valentine’s Day publication, but I’m not in charge of the site and [insert Serenity Prayer]. I wrote about amateur hours (capitalized and generic), amateur nights... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2021 at Fritinancy
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New on Strong Language: You bet your asterisk!
My new post for Strong Language (the sweary blog about swearing) asks: When the old swears no longer shock, what’s an advertiser to do? One answer: swear-ify inoffensive words by inserting asterisks into them. Read “You bet your asterisk!” Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Turncoat
Posted Feb 15, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Aunt Jemima rebrands as Pearl Milling Co.
Posted Feb 10, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Flirt
Posted Feb 8, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Stop naming buildings after people
The San Francisco Board of Education wants to dename schools named for Abraham Lincoln, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Washington, and other people. I think they should go even further. Read my latest post for Medium. P.S. If you like the story, please “clap” for it. You can clap up to... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Stonks
Last week’s big financial story sounded like April Fool’s in January: Some mischievous day traders on the WallStreetBets subreddit noticed that GameStop, a struggling chain of brick-and-mortar video-game stores, was heavily shorted by Wall Street hedge funds—in other words, the hedgies were betting that GameStop would soon go belly-up. To... Continue reading
Posted Feb 1, 2021 at Fritinancy
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January linkfest
Posted Jan 28, 2021 at Fritinancy
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Word of the week: Fig
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at Fritinancy
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