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  • The First 10 Words of the African American English Dictionary Are In

    05/24/2023 11:31:51 AM PDT · by euram · 79 replies
    yahoonews ^ | May 24 2023 | Sandra E. Garcia
    In a recent online presentation, editors and researchers working on a first-of-its-kind dictionary of African American English gave a status update on the project. As academics explained their various methodologies, slides displayed behind them showed words that are more often associated with Twitter than Oxford: “Bussin,” virtual attendees were told, means impressive or tasty, while a “boo” is a lover. Those were two of the first 100 words that the Oxford University Press said it had prepared to include in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the hopeful result of the three-year research project announced last spring.
  • Louisville protests descend into chaos when armed protester accidentally shoots members of his group, injuring 3

    07/25/2020 3:19:50 PM PDT · by familyop · 99 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 25, 2020 | Vandana Rambaran
    Gunshots erupted during a planned protest in Louisville, Ky., Saturday and three members of the heavily armed militia group, the "Not F---ing Around Coalition" (NFAC), were injured by shots fired from one of their own member's guns, police told Fox News...many of whom are not from Kentucky--claiming they are defending the Constitution and decrying the death of Breonna Taylor.