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adventurer, book lover, crafter, dictionary collector, editor @MerriamWebster, linguist, logician, mom of a teen and a tot | she/her | men are the worst

Joined July 2016
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KNOCK KNOCK. Who's there? TO. To who? TO WHOM*
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Pro tip: it's spelled d-i-a-r-r-h-e-a.
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I’m going full cat lady today
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today I made a stuffed (plush) potato, as requested by the 5 year old.
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I hate editor Halloween, what do you mean you're going as an italicized period??
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trick or treat | noun | a Halloween practice in which children wearing costumes go from door to door in a neighborhood saying "trick or treat" when a door is opened to ask for treats with the implied threat of playing tricks on those who refuse
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in case anyone is still wondering why women/girls don't "just say no/leave" this type of news is a daily thing.
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"...he had repeatedly struck his wife with a hammer in their living room....Then, he allegedly told authorities he'd placed her dead body in their Toyota Highlander, hid the vehicle behind a barn and waited for the couple’s two children to leave for school..."
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Young’s Jeep enter[ed] at 12:11 p.m., with Hopper’s SUV following just a few seconds behind hers... When Young got out of the Jeep, Hopper “fired at least one more shot into the victim as she lay on the ground,” ... Young had recently broken up with Hopper....
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happy caturday to all who celebrate
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this has been the worst fucking day. pls send memes and corny jokes
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whined = 😩 wind = ⌚️ wined = 🍷
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Let's be sensitive to our language choices this week!
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New words just dropped.

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as a lexicographer, I think a lot about Gödel's incompleteness theorem
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Catch me if you can.. 😂 teapawt.org/buitengebieden/status/…
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Do you want a brief explanation of an acorn? In a nutshell, it’s an oak tree.
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A bit of wisdom a middle-schooler just shared with us: A cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a comma's a pause at the end of a clause. Meow.
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ailurophile | noun | a cat fancier: a lover of cats ow.ly/JOMN50TphzT
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