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Jon Bosak · @bosak
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A recent post about folks misconstruing "bellwether" reminded me of a favorite of mine: "forebears." I pronounce it the original way (with three syllables) to point out that the "be" in "bears" is the verb "to be." A fore-be-er is someone who existed before you. Nothing to do with bears or bearing. So please, please, no forebearers. Forbearers are ok, of course; we could always use more of them.

#englishwords

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Amy Fountain · @amyfou
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Good morning friends ☕ ☕ 💞 🐕 🐕 💞

As Gracie and Niko have been doing their morning tussles, I've been scanning the news for linguistic weirdness and note that the NYT has decided to use 'fecklessly' in a lede hooray for low frequency words!

who here has a confident mental lexicon entry for 'feckless'???

#morningheadlines #linguistreadsthenews #englishwords

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SPIRIT(スピリット) · @tkt058
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SPIRIT(スピリット) · @tkt058
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一見同じ製品だけど価格は同じままでいつの間にかサイズが小さくなってる現象、 というのか。

RT @bbcle@twitter.com

Are things getting smaller?
Learn this big word all about it….
[Image: Getty]

🐦🔗: twitter.com/bbcle/status/15913

#idioms #englishwords #vocabulary #learnenglish #Shrinkflation #シュリンクフレーション

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