Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. Yes, I have a Substack. https://fritinancy.substack.com/
Someday the @nytimes.com will figure out how to make subjects and verbs agree, but June 29, 2024, the date this movie review was published, was not that day.
(The subject is "showing," not "deaths.")
Sign in the Oakland DMV office. I hadn't known that "Hmoob" has replaced "Hmong." Some people prefer the intercap version, HMoob, "because it incorporates graphemes (i.e. letters) from all three other terms of group-based identity." blogs.extension.wisc.edu/oaic/files/2...
(Also: Hebrew!)
TIL that the OED has a citation for "verse" = to compete against (colloquial, orig. and chiefly U.S.) from 1984, which is earlier than I'd have guessed.
I've been researching the origins of “celebration of life,” which I haven’t yet found, but I did find this graph for “celebration,” which tracks with my subjective sense that there’s a lot more celebrating — preschool “graduations,” gender reveals, engagement parties — than there used to be.
