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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.


The #WordOfTheDay is ‘imprimatur.’ ow.ly/Ax5m50X9s1h

MerriamWebster's tweet image. The #WordOfTheDay is ‘imprimatur.’
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We're like 99% sure that's not where it came from but

What if Cain actually ate Abel and that’s where the word Cannibal came from



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The African Union has endorsed a campaign calling for the use of a world map that reflects countries' true sizes. Why doesn't our current world map do that?


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We think about this @goodreads review for our Dictionary like once a week.

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Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.


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Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’ It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.” It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”


hard pass | noun | a firm refusal or rejection of something (such as an offer)


thumb notch | noun | a notch of a size to admit the tip of a thumb cut in the outer edges of the pages of a book for the insertion of index letters or headings

MerriamWebster's tweet image. thumb notch | noun | a notch of a size to admit the tip of a thumb cut in the outer edges of the pages of a book for the insertion of index letters or headings

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?


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October 31, 2000, was the last time all of humanity was on Earth. Since then, there has always been at least one person in space.

Does anyone have any random fun facts about a very niche subject. I'm bored and love learning random things



We're usually pretty anti-number but we're going to frame this.

Here are the numbers from 10 to 100 in alphabetical order: 18, 80, 88, 85, 84, 89, 81, 87, 86, 83, 82, 11, 15, 50, 58, 55, 54, 59, 51, 57, 56, 53, 52, 40, 48, 45, 44, 49, 41, 47, 46, 43, 42, 14, 19, 90, 98, 95, 94, 99, 91, 97, 96, 93, 92, 17, 70, 78, 75, 74, 79, 71, 77, 76, 73,



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