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Listen • 50:29 / Every year, new words, senses and changes in word usage are added to the American Heritage Dictionary. (Pixabay) This episode originally aired on May 13, 2021. A neologism is a new word, usage, or expression. Successful word-coinages, those that stay in currency for a good long time, tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely ponder when and where they were first minted. Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher: we explore The Hidden History of Coined Words with author Ralph Keyes. Guest:

Listen • 50:29 / Every year, new words, senses and changes in word usage are added to the American Heritage Dictionary. (Pixabay) A neologism is a new word, usage, or expression. Successful word-coinages, those that stay in currency for a good long time, tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely ponder when and where they were first minted. Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher: we explore The Hidden History of Coined Words with author Ralph Keyes. Guest:

Irish playwright and poet, 1854–1900 The things of nature do not really belong to us; we should leave them to our children as we have received them. Speech, Ottawa, 12 May 1882 In conclusion, Oscar Wilde died in 1900, and the quotation appeared in the 1936 book “Oscar Wilde Discovers America”. The notes section at the end of the book did not specify the documentation the authors used to verify the quotation. Thus, QI is uncertain how to evaluate the credibility of the attribution to Wilde. Image Notes: Public domain image of the painting “The Equatorial Jungle” by Henri Rousseau ci...

SUSAN JOHNS Wed, 04/21/2021 - 8:45am Wiscasset officials and other attendees take part in selectmen’s April 20 Zoom meeting. Zoom screenshot Over Zoom and Youtube Tuesday night, April 20, Wiscasset selectmen listened to, praised and talked about acting soon on teenagers’ request the town help address climate change. “Wiscasset is an amazing place. It’s beautiful. But we need to keep it that way,” Wiscasset Middle High School freshman Grace Greene said. The new WMHS group, Sheepscot Climate Action Club, was Greene’s idea, teacher Ralph Keyes said. Keyes, fellow teacher...

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