[Opinion] Let’s keep our language

Let’s keep our language

NORFOLK — Is anyone besides me getting fed up with all the labeling of people and even speech? Why are we now labeling a differing opinion from our own as disinformation or misinformation? Why are we allowing matters of fact…

Language

The latest edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (published by Merriam-Webster) has now appeared – and it contains 500 new words. Well, some of them are new, but some of them we have known for quite a while. Vape we have known for several years as the name of the activity of vaping instead of smoking (but every bit as dangerous). And dumpster has been the (largely) American name for those familiar big dump bins. But others are defi…