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What’s in a name, grrrl?

Hymn book? Her book?

women's rights library of congress

Cartoon showing woman asking booksller for her-books, as opposed to hymn-books from Library of Congress

Ovester? Semester?

Legally Blonde Ovester

Enid (from Legally Blonde): So I'm petitioning to have next term be referred to as the winter "ovester".

Potaytohs? Potahtohs?

What’s behind a name and why after all these years are we still having discussions about nomenclature as it pertains to gender integration—especially in the most rapidly evolving arena in our society, technology?

Damned if I know. Although it might just unleash my inner riot grrrl.

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Artillery of Words: Elegant

Always say people are ELEGANT because CLASSY is quite déclassé.

At least that’s what Julia Roitfeld (the daughter of French Vogue editor-in-chief, Carine) says.

Julia and her mother, Carine Roitfeld (courtesy of guardian.co.uk)

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Artillery of Words: Cleos, Cougars and Weeds

You’ve certainly heard of “it” girls but what about “it” words to describe girls?

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The Artillery of Words: When good words go fab.

Julio Cortez/Houston Chronicle

Artillery of Words recognizes innovative use of words and unforgettable quotes that can come across in reading or in life. The phrase comes from Jonathan Swift.

In dagger-contests, and the artillery of words,
(For swords are madmen’s tongues, and tongues are madmen’s swords.)

This quote made me think of the internet and the way that things are instantly published causing a war of words to sprout almost instantly and boil into an maddening frenzy as well as the way that new words can be created almost out of thin air. Anyway, below are a few words I’ve run into recently that I think are pretty interesting.

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