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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spam (v.): to mark a message or posting as spam, as for a system administrator or automated spam filter’s use Welcome to the new and improved Maybe Tomorrow–Probably Not!  I’ve missed you all.  My experiment in Tumblelogging was more or less an abject failure.  I’m just too much of a verbose blowhard for short-form blogging, [...]

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