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Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

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Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• While no one word could define a dynamic 2024, different dictionaries’ and publications’ ...

If you think it’s “miss-CHEE-vee-uss,” take another gander at the spelling: There’s no i after the v. It’s “MISS-chuh-vuss.” ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...

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This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. As is an annual tradition, Merriam-Webster has ...

Is it any wonder Merriam-Webster chose “polarization” as its word of the year? And given the divisions that defined 2024, the ...