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Ikea effect

If you’ve ever bought a piece of unassembled furniture from Ikea, think about your feeling when you got it home: did you stack the flat packs in a corner with a faint sense of dread and say “I’ll get...

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System D

I’d never heard of system D until somebody passed on to me a recent article in Foreign Policy magazine by Robert Neuwirth, an excerpt adapted from a new book by Neuwirth called Stealth of Nations. It’s...

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Coffice

Since I’ve been writing about new expressions for wwword, I’ve had the occasional flash of pride over our early investigations of coinages such as precariat (a contribution that came out before Guy...

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Pink slime

This is a pair of words you’ve probably heard a good deal about in recent weeks; most likely since March 7, when ABC News seized on the story of pink slime and made an, um, meal of it. Pink slime,...

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Tweet seat

Normally when I’m writing here about new expressions it’s in a spirit of cheerful, disinterested curiosity and the desire to pass on whatever I’ve managed to find out. But when I recently came upon...

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Hashtag activism

I just deleted an email whose subject line was “Stop anti-conservation bill from harming Arizona ocelots!” It was one of at least 25 emails I’ve received this weekend (it’s a lot worse during the week)...

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Binge watching

Last year my boyfriend Michael Thomas and I downloaded the TV show Friday Night Lights on Netflix and proceeded to watch all 76 episodes over the space of about a month. Maybe that doesn’t sound like...

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WOTY?

The Oxford Dictionaries’ “Words of the Year” (one U.K., one U.S.) have just been announced. They are, respectively, omnishambles and gif—or, rather, GIF, since it’s an acronym (of “graphics interchange...

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#HASHTAG

At the annual meeting of the venerable American Dialect Society in Boston last week, hashtag, child of the Twitterverse, beat out contenders that included Gangnam style, fiscal cliff and 47 percent for...

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Lean In

I did not know until I did some recent ferreting in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary that to the ancient Greeks the word klimax meant “ladder”—as in two poles connected by rungs that you stand against a...

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