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☆ What’s a ‘Girl Dinner’ Got to Do to Get Into the Dictionary These Days?
  + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Sam Corbin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
If you feel like you’re drowning in neologisms lately, you’re not delulu. The uptick in coinages has been noted by culture writers and TikTok users alike. There’s even a meme for slang overload, though it has been around since 2020. Girl dinner, an informal phrase credited to the TikTok user Olivia Maher that describes a light, charcuterie board-like meal, was inducted as an entry on Dictionary.com this month. It joins other newly inducted informal nouns and slang terms — including bussin’, the ick and pretty privilege — whose rise has been driven at least in part by social media.
Persons: you’re, —, Olivia Maher, bussin ’, Grant Barrett, Dictionary.com Locations: coinages
☆ The Nicest Place on the Internet
  + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Deb Amlen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
New York Times Games — which includes the Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, Connections and more — has a devoted fandom. But I think the word “community” is a better way to describe them. I told my readers that Wordplay was a party, and that everyone was invited. Wordplay began talking directly to beginners, because I knew that every day new people pick up crosswords for the first time. The more experienced solvers rose to the occasion in the comments, and began helping beginners find their way.
Persons: Sam Corbin, Caitlin Lovinger — Organizations: New York Times Games, Times
☆ Keeping the Peace With Road Trip Games
  + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Sam Corbin | More About Sam Corbin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
And for those opting to join the hordes, these numbers may translate to spending several hours in a car with family members. That way madness lies — and the best of us might lose our wits, but for the grace of car games. We shouldn’t be looking at our devices in cars, anyway, and friendly analog competition can make time on the road feel like a passing memory. In my family of highly competitive wordsmiths, car games could be a source of either entertainment or ire depending on the rules: Whenever the “X” of crosswalks wasn’t fair alphabet game, things got ugly. After all, the only real game of the car ride is keeping everyone on speaking terms until you reach your destination.
Organizations: AAA
☆ Searching for the ‘People’s Spelling Alphabet’
  + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Sam Corbin | More About Sam Corbin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Phonetic alphabets, also known as spelling alphabets, came to prominence on the global stage in the mid-20th century, as world wars made urgent the need for clear, quick and secretive communication among Allied forces. The NATO Alphabet we know today (which begins with Alfa, Bravo, Charlie) was adopted officially in 1956 by the International Civil Aviation Organization, after earlier iterations such as the Able Baker alphabet proved inadequate. In a version used briefly by the British Royal Army, the spelling alphabet begins with Ack, Beer, which is what I say when I realize I’ve shown up empty-handed to a party. The NATO alphabet remains ubiquitous in ceremony — it comes up often in The New York Times’s crossword entries — but in practice, it’s somewhat niche. When was the last time you clarified the letter “Y” by saying “Yankee” instead of something like “yellow” or “yes”?
Persons: “, Charlie, Able Baker Organizations: Allied, NATO, Alfa, Bravo, International Civil Aviation Organization, British Royal Army Locations: Babel, Beer, New
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