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Linguistic Anthropologist spreading the love for language, so come on and give me some sugar.

[The OED @OED]

Instrophiate - a rare word which can mean 'put on as a headband'.

[About World Language @aboutworldlangs]

Music: keeping the #Mohawk #language alive through song #langnews http://t.co/apfJv2cz05

[Nova Languages @novalanguages]

Alaska's indigenous languages attain official status http://t.co/O4q9x3fSnP via @guardian

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Election dispute highlights Navajo Nation divide over language via @AJAM http://t.co/lQ4wNgkCvF

[Hyperlingo @hyperlingo]

Microbes provide insights into evolution of human #language http://t.co/L6rg1NDTBG

[Language Log @LanguageLog]

Identify Mystery Text, Win $1000: From the University Chicago Library News: Calling all historians of cryptogr... http://t.co/69MijO68ee

[About World Language @aboutworldlangs]

By the 26th century BC, the #cuneiform script had been adapted to write Akkadian. http://t.co/8SYGWBCMYP

[Roxane Harrison @roxaneharrison]

12 verb tenses table learning English grammar tenses | @scoopit http://t.co/UUEpSOorD4

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Octroy (v trans.) - Of a government etc.: concede or grant (a privilege etc.). http://t.co/cApN0gLyXd #wotd

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Periapt (n) - An amulet. http://t.co/F6KapQII6t #wotd

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Repine (v trans.) - 1 Cause trouble to. 2 (v intrans.) Feel or express regretful dissatisfaction; fret, complain. #wotd

[Language Log @LanguageLog]

PSDS: Linguists are generally scornful of "eye dialect", in both of the common meanings of that term: As an "u... http://t.co/pnmW8h2Wkr

[Pat and Stewart @grammarphobia]

#NYTimes column by Teddy Wayne, "On Internet Slang, IMHO," has comments by Pat: http://t.co/yU3pGEqxbY #grammar #etymology #linguistics

[The OED @OED]

Historical synonyms for 'talkative person' include blabberer, clatterfart, bablatrice, twattle-basket, nimble-chops, & jawsmith.

[About World Language @aboutworldlangs]

All #NaDené languages, except for Apache and Navajo, are seriously endangered or on the verge of extinction. http://t.co/juwFNKKTwV

[WordAficionada @WordAficionada]

Deprehend (v trans.) - 1 Take by surprise; catch in the act. b Seize, capture, arrest. 2 Detect, discover; perceive, understand. #WOTD

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Panegyric (n) - 1 A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something; a laudatory discourse; a eulogy. 2 High praise. #WOTD

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Tor (n) - A rocky peak or hill, esp. in Cornwall or Devon. Formerly also, a (pile of) rocks on the top of a hill. #WOTD #English #language

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Resupine (adj) - 1 Listless, apathetic. 2 Lying on the back; inclined backwards. #WOTD #English #language

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Scoparin (n) - A yellow crystalline pigment found in broom flowers, with diuretic properties. #WOTD #language #English