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Ian Gavan/Getty Images for MTV Miley Cyrus assumes the position to twerk during the MTV Europe Music Awards, held in Amsterdam in November. Good thing the Lake Superior University ban is on the use of the word and not on demonstrating it. At the risk of running afoul of the word police, Miley Cyrus better not take a selfie of ...

A new book aimed at children celebrates wonderfully evocative words forgotten over the centuries [GETTY: Pic posed by model] Snollygoster: someone unprincipled, but shrewd; e.g door-to-door salespeople Most of them are very boring, very long and often the names of some new molecular wotsit beginning with “poly” or “tri”. But in the world of everyday usage our language is shrinking ...