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Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

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post #3

No cap, but the first ten-ish were already well known to me. Might be worth mentioning you're pitching below not-particularly-well-read this guy.

yes i too am really smart like this guy and this website is WAY below my reading level. Can somebody link me to the version for us smart guys?!

Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

#32
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot seem to find the RSS link anywhere on this site, can you share which url you have directly in your RSS reader? thx

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wotd/feed/rss2

Much appreciated, thanks.

Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

#33
post #14

what would make a "word of the day" stream compelling to me would be a word that reflected recent news. William Safire did this to some extent in his weekly column in the NY Times and it was usually pretty interesting. a way to increase the discovery of relevance could be looking up the etymologies of words that pop up, I'm always fascinated by how complex and interesting etymologies are

The NY Times still does this: https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-word-of-the-day

Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

#34
post #26

I've had Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day [1] feed on my RSS reader for a while and I think these are quite usable. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/calendar

I cannot seem to find the RSS link anywhere on this site, can you share which url you have directly in your RSS reader? thx

If that happens with other websites too, you can also use feed finder tools like https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

#35
post #7

I think it would be interesting to incorporate loan words or phrases. Often these words become loan words because there's no good English equivalents so loan words/phrases sort of expand our ability to grapple these concepts.

how very entrepreneurial of you

touché
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