umlaut (n.): a diacritic mark placed (in proper usage) over a vowel to denote a sound change in German.  used by extension in English to refer to any diaeresis or trema It’s Spam Week here at MTPN!  The umlaut is an uncommon mark in American English, generally reserved for Frenchy-sounding names like Chloë and Anaïs and for [...]

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autobiography (n.): the biography of a person narrated by him- or herself With the recent advent of social networking sites (recent compared to, say, the Protestant Reformation or the Punic Wars), self-description has become a literary form for the masses in a way that I think may be unique in history. People have kept diaries [...]

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