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It’s been an eventful day. I was at work, not the Boston Marathon, though a friend of mine was about a half-mile from the finish line when the bombs went off. Why Boston? Why the marathon? Why today? I don’t … Continue reading →

A hapax legomenon (Greek: “what is said once”) is a word that appears only a single time in a given context, be it a single document, the complete works of an author, or the written record of an entire language.  You usually don’t … Continue reading →