by Kevin Burton We just bought a big box of corn from our favorite buy-local small farm. That makes us a candidate to help the young man from our first good-news story today. But as you will see, he’s doing OK! Hope you are having a good Saturday and have room for …
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Retronyms: The New Defining The Old
by Kevin Burton We all know that time marches on. So does technology and so does the language we use to describe it. Today from our friends at Merriam-Webster dictionary, we get some phrases made necessary by those inexorable marches. They are called retronyms. Think of them as a blast to the past. …
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