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By Carol Harrison
Forgive me if this is a couple of months old, but it’s funny! Don’t fart in the House.
What you should read before you say fart in the House of Commons.
Kudos to The Weeknd who takes time between hit singles to save a lost Ethiopian language.
And speaking of saving a language, two Fulani brothers invent an alphabet for their language. Now they’re working on a font.
“A rose by any other colour looks just as sweet!” How did colours get their names?
And why you shouldn’t mix your colours in the –wash.
Try to or try and; there is no do.
The latest kid on the gender-neutral block: Latinx.
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 Ellen Fleischer.
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