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The copy-editor of the New Yorker wrote about coming to terms with with their particular house style (diaereses and all, and I swear to god I tried to include one in this overview but couldn't). They are, of course, holding down the fort when on Twitter people are at times omitting all punctuation all together.

Grammar news, as it happens, has been cropping up all over the place recently. One man is on a mission to remove the phrase "comprised of" from Wikipedia, and, as a Valley Girl, I am very invested in this piece about young women's language patterns (like vocal fry) being "on the forefront of linguistic change."

A pun on the word rice (米, when combined with other characters is pronounced "bei") in Japanese has meant that people are shaping their rice in the shape of Baymax from the film Big Hero 6. Voila, 米マックス!

To finish your meal, pick up some of these chocolates shaped like onomatopoeic words, like トゲトゲ (toge toge), or "sharp pointed tips."

The Dove Type is a typeface created in the early 20th century, but after a falling-out with his partner, the creator "made around 170 trips to the Hammersmith Bridge to tip small parcels into the water at night, the splashes concealed by passing traffic, before announcing that it had been "bequeathed' to the Thames." It's now been found (in the banks of the Thames) and has been digitized.

Deb Chachra (who writes an excellent newsletter) wrote a piece on Osedax, or as she refers to them as "zombie, bone-eating, harem-keeping worms." It's been illustrated, and is a fascinating look at these creatures that live of the remains of whale carcasses that fall to the bottom of the ocean.

Etcetera: Martha's Vineyard Sign Language. The User is Drunk!

--Emily
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