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Become a Patron!Show notes
PhD Alum Kelly Wright Awarded Best Paper in Language
https://lsa.umich.edu/linguistics/news-events/all-news/recent-news/phd-alum-kelly-wright-awarded-best-paper-in-language.html
Gurl, Am I Appropriating Black Women? | Medium
https://medium.com/tartmag/gurl-am-i-appropriating-black-women-859b679ff256
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini-generative-inaccurate-historical
CDC Presentation: Linguistic Diversity & Public Health
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KtuCW_iddhHUDq7uagoGQnjAeTVkY7VQwuOCwjLGGEc/edit#slide=id.g2891b0c852b_0_83
sextillion | Dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sextillion
Long and short scales | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
The Possessive Apostrophe His Origin | Publisher’s Round-up
http://wmjasco.blogspot.com/2011/08/possessive-apostrophe-his-origin.html
His genitive | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_genitive
Why “children,” not “childs”? | Grammarphobia
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/03/en-plural.html
Move over Shakespeare, teen girls are the real language disruptors
https://qz.com/474671/move-over-shakespeare-teen-girls-are-the-real-language-disruptors
Adverbial genitive | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverbial_genitive
The Queen of Daytime TV
https://achievement.org/achiever/oprah-winfrey/#interview
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