Angela Tung
Angela Tung's essays on language and culture have appeared at Mental Floss, Quartz, Salon, The Week, The Weeklings, and Wordnik. Her personal essays have appeared at The Frisky, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere.
Latest articles by Angela Tung
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8 delightfully strange beard and mustache words
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10 sneaky pieces of thief slang
feature The true origin stories of grift, busk, smart aleck, and more criminal terms
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A brief history of yippee-ki-yay
feature The origin of Bruce Willis' famous phrase dates back centuries
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8 words coined and popularized by Jonathan Swift
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The Kentucky Derby: A brief guide to hat-related words
feature Some would have you believe the Kentucky Derby is about horse-racing. We know it's really about the hats.
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13 words we learned from TV this week
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Spelling confessions: The super-frustrating words we still mess up
feature Even language lovers struggle with spelling sometimes
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10 words we learned from TV
feature Anxiet, truthinews, and more
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12 weird words we learned from TV this week
feature Crotcherazzi, jookin, tramp art, and more
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The week in words
feature From the grammatic evolution of LOL to how U.S. mountains are named, the highlights from our favorite language blogs and the latest in word news and culture
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