Scripps Spelling Bee 2021: Zaila Avant-garde Wins
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Zaila Avant-garde, the winner of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee.Credit.Scott McIntyre for The New York Times
The last few words were rattled off in a swift spelling duel, with only two finalists still on the stage, Chaitra Thummala and Zaila Avant-garde.
First was
fewtrils (things of little value), which Chaitra, a 12-year-old who just finished sixth grade in San Francisco, got right. Then
retene (a chemical isolated especially from pine tar, rosin oil and various fossil resins but usually prepared from abietic acid), which Zaila got right. And finally
âActive Shooterâ: How an Obscure Term Became a Shorthand for Violence
This law enforcement jargon has proliferated in recent years on social media and in breaking news reports. While it conjures fears of mass shootings, the term is often used imprecisely. Many reports turn out to be false alarms.
The mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 1999, changed the popular understanding of the term âactive shooter.âCredit.Rodolfo Gonzales/The Rocky Mountain News, via Associated Press
May 4, 2021, 9:02 a.m. ET
For most of the 20th century, âactive shootersâ in the United States were not considered cause for alarm.
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Gowl, eejit, langer: Perhaps the Netflix show on swear words needs a Cork episode
. and a UCC professor says that, contrary to popular belief, Irish people don t swear more than other nationalities. (Warning: This piece contains swear words)
Nicolas Cage in History of Swear Words on Netflix.
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She s a linguistics professor who studied at numerous universities but one word in particular was new to Dr Barbara Siller when she moved to Cork langer .
However, Dr Siller, the programme director of Applied Linguistics at University College Cork, was more than capable of deciphering the meaning from the context. She was commenting on Netflix show History of Swear Words, hosted by Nicholas Cage a loud and proudly profane series that explores the history and cultural impact of curse words. Through interviews with experts in etymology, rappers, historians, and comedians, the series dives into the origins of bad language or swear words
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