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By Carol Harrison
’Tis the season for giving or gifting?: The Atlantic’s Megan Garber argues against gifting.
Hey, girl! The analytics website FiveThirtyEight crunches the numbers about why so many girls are in book titles.
In this short interview, The Book Wars talks to Inhabit Media’s Kelly Ward about translating First Peoples’ languages into English.
The Chicago Manual of Style’s Word Usage Workout is an online quiz worth your time! Sadly, however, you won’t learn who you were in a past life.
Grappling for words: the language of wrestling. I don’t know about you, but I intend to wrangle a few of these into my daily conversations.
Author–editor lurve: interviews from Quill & Quire.
Ah, yes Down East: according to the Language Portal of Canada, Atlantic Canadians have a distinct way with the affirmative.
The meaning of meme: want to incite a flame war on Facebook? Read>Play>Edit’s Jamie Chavez provides the ammunition!
Carol Harrison is editor-in-chief of BoldFace and freelance editor and writer at Muse Ink. When she isn’t focusing on words, she’s focusing her Nikon D3200.
This article was copy edited by Larysa Kormikeva.
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