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Let’s get together, for a get-together! Posted by on Sep 5, 2013

I’m going to an event called a ‘gathering’ this weekend, which got me thinking about all the words we have in English for group meetings, like gatherings. Here are just a few: a meeting, a gathering, an assembly, a get-together. Although these are all synonyms they each have their own unique differences or connotations…

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Protest vocabulary Posted by on May 30, 2013

Living in the capitol city of the United States, Washington, DC, I see and hear a lot of different protests. Protesters often come from around the country and the world to meet together in this city to make their wants and desires about political, systemic and environmental change known. Today I thought I would introduce…

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