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  1. 13 hours ago

    🚗🚙🚕🚗 'Gridlock' has only been on written record since 1980, but it feels like it's been FOREVER. 🚛🚓🚙🚌

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  2. 18 hours ago

    If you've been 'smitten,' that may mean you're in love. Or, it could mean you're dealing with a plague of frogs.

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  3. 22 hours ago

    Good morning! Today's is 'disport'

    12 replies 263 retweets 641 likes
  4. Sep 8

    The is 'extemporaneous'

    8 replies 132 retweets 512 likes
  5. Sep 8

    Pangram: The five boxing wizards jump quickly. Pretty rough anagram: BMW quit sky, jeopardizing chive flux

    4 replies 37 retweets 117 likes
  6. Sep 8

    'Starchitect' is among the rare portmanteaus that convey their meaning right in their name. (Sorry, sharknado.)

    10 replies 53 retweets 203 likes
  7. Sep 8

    📈 Searches for 'hurricane' spike as Hurricane Irma approaches the Florida coast

    5 replies 24 retweets 66 likes
  8. Sep 8

    If you think 'nother' is a modern invention, you've got a whole 'nother thing coming.

    29 replies 69 retweets 235 likes
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    Sep 8

    Did you know that the first known use of "hairball" was in 1712, according to ?

    4 replies 54 retweets 204 likes
  10. Sep 8

    End your week with the only quiz that asks "How well do you *really* know 'puce'?"

    9 replies 49 retweets 129 likes
  11. Sep 8

    Good morning! Today's is 'extemporaneous'

    38 replies 533 retweets 1,278 likes
  12. Sep 7

    Does 'damp down' drive you up the wall? What about 'tamp down'? Either way, let's take it down a notch.

    23 replies 58 retweets 200 likes
  13. Sep 7

    Let's take a look at the one thing everyone agrees on: the serial comma.

    20 replies 112 retweets 376 likes
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    Sep 6

    MY SISTER TEACHES CELLO SHE REPORTS THAT HER NEW STUDENTS CALL SHARPS “HASHTAGS” CONCERTO IN F HASHTAG

    2,189 replies 75,915 retweets 242,586 likes
  15. Sep 7

    Snake oil not included.

    11 replies 32 retweets 121 likes
  16. Sep 7

    The Latin root of 'plagiarize' meant "kidnapper." Please don't steal other people's word children.

    16 replies 965 retweets 1,937 likes
  17. Sep 7

    Good morning! Today's is 'propagate'

    10 replies 227 retweets 488 likes
  18. Sep 6

    'Robot' is today's

    12 replies 111 retweets 427 likes
  19. Sep 6

    'Whataboutism': the "I'm rubber and you're glue" of politics.

    8 replies 283 retweets 542 likes
  20. Sep 6
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    Live shot of a descriptivist watching their mentions:

    11 replies 45 retweets 456 likes

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