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Subjects No Longer Taught (Much) In Schools

by interestingfacts.com    Think back to your school days: Are you nostalgic for flipping through a dusty library card catalog or clacking away on a typewriter?    Some subjects you remember from those days are probably things of the past, although the finer points of how schools have changed might surprise you. These six subjects …

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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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