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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 col
by fsckboy 1y ago
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
- xnx 1y agoThe NY Times still does this: https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-word-of-the-day https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-word-of-the-day