About this Word According to Helen Jenkens, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, “The concept of ‘patient zero’ is highly stigmatizing and often wrong anyway. No…
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“Essential” – Workers, Services and Businesses, Part 2
About this Word – in dictionaries. (Please share your love of language, with the social share buttons below; or with the feedback form at the bottom of the article.) Dictionaries traditionally provide…
“Essential” – Workers, Services and Businesses, Part 1
About this Word … (Please share your love of language, with the social share buttons below, or with the feedback form at the bottom of the article.) The regular mention of “essential…
Creating the living vocabulary of our time – Part 2
About This Word – an introduction to this feature in the Wordsmyth Blog …(Please share your love of language, with the social share buttons below, or with the feedback form at the…
“Social Distancing” or “Distant Socializing”?
About this word(Please share your love of language, with the social share buttons below; or with the feedback form at the bottom of the article.) In this mixed up time of the…