I’ve had a unique life. My career path in the media and music business isn’t what you might consider normal. So when I see something or even hear something new, I get excited. The other day, I was with a co-worker and talked about a new project she was working on. I asked why she…
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Don’t worry; we aren’t going to discuss the nuances of wine tasting. And we have no intention of debating which is the best beer. We’re talking about an idiom that I’ve heard pop up recently. The phrase drinking from a fire hose has popped up a lot lately. I can’t remember the first time I…
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Recently, I’ve noticed that people are referencing children in a new way. Rather than simply calling them children or kids, people frequently use the terms littles or kiddos. When did this start? And, more importantly, why? Instead of shortening the word kids, which is already just four letters, we’ve turned a word that is either…
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I do my best to keep up with the latest memes and slang. But every so often, I come across a term I’d never heard before. A couple of weeks ago, I read about a celebrity breakup, and there was a reference to the term goblin mode. I’ll admit, I had to check out the…
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Have you ever thrown the forks? You could have, and not even known you were doing it. I was reading about the origins of the peace sign the other day. And that led me down a rabbit hole. I learned that some people throw the forks when they think they’re flashing a peace sign…
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To some, today is Weed Day, or as many people call it, simply 420. And like many, I always believed that the 420 slang was based off of police code. But as I just learned, that’s not the case at all…
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The word has been around forever. But I’m wondering, do people still use it?
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