#etymology

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LGBT
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3 days ago

What's tea? No, seriously. What's 'tea'?

“Tea” is Black gay slang meaning gossip, originating in southern Black communities and distinct from the beverage whose English name derives from Chinese "ch'a".
fromAeon
1 week ago

The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays

Jacques Perret proposed the French term 'ordinateur' for IBM's new class of machines, and the term quickly became the standard name in France.
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fromDefector
1 month ago

Fatal Battles In Common Loons: A Subsequent Analysis | Defector

My ignorance of loons was such that when I first saw a loon while kayaking, I thought it was a duck. To my great shame, I went so far as to ask these two other kayakers who were also looking at the loon, "What kind of duck is that?" That is how I learned what loons looked like. This is also when I took the only photo of a loon I got the entire weekend.
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US news
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3 months ago

Word of the Week: Before the Birdman of Alcatraz, the island was known for its birds

Alcatraz is back in the news as Trump orders its reopening to house the nation's most violent offenders.
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