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After many months of me complaining to Merriam-Webster’s “Contact Us” page, the savvy Merry Webbers…

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I’ve been getting into native perennial gardening this year. Of all the plants I’m growing,…

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I have a new friend who lived in Kenya for most of his life. He…

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I live in a house built around the year 1890. My neighborhood is called “Old…

There’s a good reason I haven’t shared a roundup of new dictionary words in a…