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New Word Order

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If only social media had been around in Shakespeare’s day. Back in February, an eight-year-old Italian boy used the word “petaloso” in a classroom assignment. The word doesn’t officially exist in the Italian language (apparently Italian has an equivalent of l’académie française called the Accademia della Crusca), so the boy’s teacher marked it as an incorrect word, but she also… Read more »