Also not on my 2014 words-of-the-year list: beamsword. Maybe next year, after Star Wars VII is released.

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• The digital hand. Found art in a scanned newspaper archive. https://t.co/142oKyr3MH
• Listen tonight as I’m scheduled to go on the Karen Conti show on WGN Chicago at 7:30 CDT to talk about common stumbling blocks in everyday English. https://t.co/Us0v30FhPO
• That’s a lot of radio stations broadcasting from one building in Mexico City.
• Spending Father’s Day with my onliest boy and his mama in Mexico City. The Spanish on the street ad says “How cool is Papa.” “Padre” does mean father but it’s also slang for “cool.” “Padrísimo” means “very cool.”
• Ancient scripts are always a delight in great museums.

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