Link Mania: The Taming of the Xanthippe?

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is...
...an emoji pictograph. Hmmph. Even "they" or (haha) "lumbersexual" would be a better choice.

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Big Words Can Come in Small Packages
Including "benthic" (adjective form of "benthos", TWITO page 20) and "preterist" (TWITO, page 115).

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40 Xcellent X-Words
Shakespeare could have written "The Taming of the Xanthippe". I'm kind of glad he didn't.

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9 words to use instead of ‘toilet’
No, not that one you're thinking of.... Et tu, Shakespeare?