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As a linguist who specialises in tracking slang and language change, there’s one holiday tradition I always look forward to: the annual selection of the word...
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Writing in the Week, journalist Theara Coleman has declared 2023 “the year of the loneliness epidemic”. In May, the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy,...