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Summertime, and the words are too easy

Memorial Day has come and gone, bringing with it the unofficial beginning of the summer in the northern hemisphere. These days, summer evokes such plebeian terms as barbecue, vacation (or, even worse, staycation), or timeshare. Yet if we scratch even the surface of English vocabulary, we quickly find that there is a wealth of more [...]

Posted on: June 7 2012 | Posted by: | Comments: 1 | Categories: English in use, Word trends and new words | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

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