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WORD OF THE DAY Sunday, March 12, 2023 OED Word of the Day: factoid, n. An item of information accepted or presented as a fact, although not (or not necessarily) true. This first appears in Norman Mailer's novel Marilyn, published 50 years ago this year.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Factoids..that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority." - 1973, N. Mailer, Marilyn i. 18/2

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WORD OF THE DAY Wed, April 6, 2021 OED Word of the Day: parish pumpery, n. Concern with local matters exclusively, parochialism; (also) people having such concerns collectively. "I did not spend a lifetime supporting the cause of..the establishment of a Scottish Parliament so that it could devote its time to parish pumpery and political correctness." - 2002, Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Aug. 20 ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ #parishpumpery #wordoftheday #word #words #wordstolearn #vocabulary #learnvocabulary #educational #educationalpost #educationalposts #learnsomethingneweveryday #becomesmartereveryday #becomempowered #bempowering #wordofthedayapp #oed #oxfordenglishdictionary #oxfordlanguages #oxfordlexico @OED https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXusObH1RF/?igshid=12k78haiyggcc