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Twitter users stretch words such as ‘yes’, ‘dude’ and ‘hey’ to modify their meaning, according to researchers who analysed 100 billion tweets. The US linguist experts say stretched words that convey a different meaning than the original are common feature of social media, but are rare in formal writing. For instance, ‘suuuuure’ can imply sarcasm, ‘duuuuude’ … Read more
Grimes confirms she and Elon Musk HAVE named their newborn baby X Æ A-12 and reveals its meaning – including the inspiration from mythical elves and a CIA spy plane from the 1960s Grimes took to Twitter Tuesday evening to explain the meaning of her son XÆ A-12’s name She claimed each character in the … Read more
From motorsport to building life-saving equipment fast in the Ventilator Challenge: Craig Wilson, of Williams Advanced Engineering, on the Meaning Business podcast By This Is Money Published: 13:22 BST, 29 April 2020 | Updated: 13:22 BST, 29 April 2020 Meaning Business is a new podcast series, where Simon Lambert speaks to people from the world … Read more
The number of families claiming child benefit has plunged by 44,000 to 7.28million over a year, putting more parents at risk of a poorer old age. Parents – mostly mums – can end up tens of thousands of pounds worse off in retirement because not claiming deprives them of valuable credits towards their state pension. … Read more