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Authentic: Merriam-Webster's word of the year - BBC - Dictionary

Merriam-Webster has picked its word of the year.

"Authentic" is the top word of 2023, according to America's oldest dictionary.

Merriam-Webster said it saw a "substantial increase" in online searches for it this year.

The interest was "driven by stories and conversations about AI [artificial intelligence], celebrity culture, identity, and social media", the dictionary publisher said.

One reason many people search for the word is because it has a number of meanings, including "not false or imitation" and also "true to one's own personality, spirit, or character".

"Although clearly a desirable quality, 'authentic' is hard to define and subject to debate," Merriam-Webster said.

The publisher added that the popularity of the word, which had been highly searched in the US in the past, grew this year as "the line between 'real' and 'fake'" became increasingly blurred.

The AI boom helped with the blurring, spurring interest in the authenticity of text, images and videos, the company said.

One of the runners-up for the top was "deepfake", used to describe videos and photos that are digitally altered with AI.

Meanwhile, brands, social media influencers and celebrities also popularised the word, including Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly Twitter, who has said people should be more "authentic" on social media.

Other top words from 2023 include the internet slang "rizz" - short for charisma, meaning romantic appeal or charm - and "indict", which saw a surge in interest after former President Donald Trump was indicted, or charged, in four separate legal cases.

The top words in the US were not immune to British influence. Coronation was also highly searched after Charles III was crowned the new king in May.

In 2022, the word of the year was "gaslighting", a colloquial term for manipulating somebody to cause them to question their own realities or beliefs.

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From Gumshoes to Gats: A Dictionary of Hard-Boiled Slang - Art of Manliness - Dictionary

I’m a big fan of hard-boiled detective novels. I highlighted my favorites in a previous article.

The thing about hard-boiled detective novels is that the characters often use slang words that were in common use in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, but are no longer part of our popular vocabulary.

There have been a few times when I’ve been reading a Raymond Chandler or John McDonald novel where the dialogue left me scratching my head.

Hundreds of hard-boiled slang words have been recorded and compiled. Below, I’ve highlighted my favorites from this category of vernacular. You’ll likely notice that there are a lot of different words for “detective.” It took me a while to figure out that a “shamus” was a detective. My absolute favorite of these slang words are the greetings (“How’s tricks?” “What’s the score?”) and the ways to tell people to get lost (“Go fry a stale egg!”).

Hopefully, reviewing this list will help you better understand the next hard-boiled detective novel you read. And maybe you’ll even sprinkle some of these words into your daily vocab to mix things up with some gritty old-school lingo.

Big house. Federal prison.

Bird. Person, either male or female, but frequently female.

Bite an egg. Take breakfast.

Blow. To leave.

Bo. Generic address; guy; jack; pal.

Booby-hatch. Mental hospital.

Bull. Cop.

Butter and egg man. Sugar daddy; implication is one fairly free with his money.

Buttons. Cops.

Buzzer. Police badge; identification.

C-note. Hundred-dollar bill.

Chicago overcoat. Coffin.

Chiseler. Low-life; hanger-on; somebody chiseling money from others.

Dance on air. Hang, as from a noose.

Darb. A person with money, who can be relied upon to pay a check.

Dead soldier. Empty liquor bottle.

Deadpan. Bodyguard; tough guy; gunny with a sheen of respectability.

Dip the bill. To have a drink.

Dish. Attractive woman.

Draw a lot of water. To have a lot of influence; to exert great influence.

Drop the arm. Arrest; nab; apprehend; snatch.

Dry-gulch. To ambush; surprise; sneak attack or attack from behind.

Dumb onion. A fool; dupe; idiot.

Dust. Take a hike; get lost; drift.

Fakeloo artist. Conman; faker; liar; pretender; deceiver.

Fin. $5 bill.

Flatfoot. Detective; shamus.

Flim-flam: Dupe; deceive; trick; take in.

Floaters. Corpses in the water; people dead by drowning.

Fog. Riddle someone with bullets.

Gat. Gun.

Gee. Man; fellow.

Gill. A drink.

Go fry a stale egg. Get lost; go jump in a lake.

Goose-berry lay. Stealing clothes from clotheslines.

Gumshoe. Detective/private dick/PI/etc.

Gunny. Hired gun; thug.

Gunsel. Hired gun.

Hackie. Taxi driver.

Hard boy. Tough guy; bodyguard; hired thug.

Hard number. Tough guy.

Hay. Useless scrip/fake bills/etc.

Heel. Jerk; low life; scumbag.

Heeled. Packing; carrying a gun.

How’s tricks? A greeting, akin to “How’s it going?”

Jake [also jakeloo]. Fine; okay; acceptable; no big deal.

Jasper. Man; handsome fellow.

Keyhole peeper. Detective/private dick/PI/etc.

Loogan. A guy with a gun.

Lug. A guy; generic address for a man; connotation of thick-headedness or limited ability/usefulness; not necessarily connoting goon, thug.

Lulu. A good-looking woman.

Make with the feet. Get lost; scram.

Mauler. Brass knuckles.

Mickey Finn (mickey). A surreptitiously adulterated drink (or the drug added to the drink to make it so) given to somebody for the purpose of rendering them insensible or unconscious.

Miscount the trumps. To overlook something.

Moll. Gangster’s girlfriend/woman/partner.

Mugg. A man (sometimes referring to dumb ones), guy, person; possible connotation of not being entirely on the up-and-up.

Muggle-smoker/muggle. Pothead; druggie.

Nevada gas. Cyanide.

Newshawk. Reporter.

No soap. No luck.

Nuts to you. Go to hell (mild).

Pie-eyed. Very drunk.

Piker. Amateur; small-time operator.

Polish an apple: Talk up; chat up; suck up to.

Prowl car. Police car.

Real cream. A good person.

Rodded. Carrying a gun (rod).

Rooster. Man who picks a fight, or somebody who carries himself like a rooster; confrontational.

Sap. Fool; fall-guy; love-struck sucker.

Sawbuck/double sawbuck. 10 dollars/20 dollars.

Shamus. Detective/private dick/PI/etc.

Sharper. Detective; private operator.

Sitting on dynamite. In the crosshairs; in the middle of a (figuratively) explosive situation.

Slip (one’s) clutch. Losing it.

Smart little egg. A fool; dupe; idiot.

Sneezer. Jail.

Squibbed (off). Killed.

Stool-pigeon. Rat; fink; an informant; criminal who talks to the cops.

Take a flutter (at something). To make a passing attempt.

Twist. Woman, with possible connotation of girlfriend, or somebody seen on the side.

Typewriter. Machine-gun.

What’s the score? What’s going on; what’s up; etc.

World-beater. Somebody better than the rest; capable of taking on the world; a person in high esteem.

Yard. One hundred dollars.

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Did the Dutch Edition of Omid Scobie Book Name Royal Racist? - The Cut - Translation

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If you’re Dutch and love royals drama, I hope you got your hands on a copy of Omid Scobie’s Endgame (or Eindstrijd) before it was pulled from the shelves. The Dutch translation of the book, which purports to detail the current state of the British royal family, reportedly names the family members who were involved in the now-infamous conversation about the skin color of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son, Archie. Before the publishers clocked the oversight, a passage made the rounds on X, seeming to confirm a theory already in circulation: Maybe it was King Charles who said it. Or maybe he was at least involved in the discussion.

According to Google Translate, the passage details an exchange of letters between Charles and Markle, in which the then-prince expressed sadness for the “huge distance between the two parties and that he was disappointed that the couple had gone public.” He was apparently referring to the Sussexes’ big Oprah interview in 2021, during which Markle said there were “concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie’s] skin might be when he’s born.” The former actress declined to name the person who’d made the comments, saying that it “would be very damaging to them.” Oprah later told CBS that Prince Harry wanted to clarify that it was not Queen Elizabeth nor her husband, Prince Philip. The idea that it might’ve been Charles surfaced later that year, in a biography claiming he made the remarks to Queen Camilla around the time of Markle and Harry’s 2017 engagement. Harry has since backtracked on the Oprah comments, insisting during his publicity tour for Spare that he had never accused anyone in his family of racism. But in Eindstrijd’s reported telling, Charles wrote Markle to say “there was no ill will or bias when he spoke about his future grandson. ‘He wanted to clarify something he felt was very important.’”

For his part, Scobie (who also happens to be a sympathetic Sussex biographer) says he doesn’t know how that allegation made it into Eindstrijd. “Having only written and edited the English version of Endgame, I can only comment on that manuscript — which does not name the two individuals who took part in the conversation,” Scobie told People. “I’m happy to hear that the error in the translation of the Dutch edition is being fixed.” As speculation ballooned, Scobie told ITV News: “I have never submitted a book that had their names in it.”

Of course, it’s unclear whether or not the original Dutch version of the book was based on an earlier draft, but the translator now insists on one thing: She did not go rogue, nor was she just being messy. “As a translator, I translate what is in front of me,” Saskia Peeters told the Daily Mail. “The names of the royals were there in black and white. I did not add them. I just did what I was paid to do, and that was translate the book from English into Dutch.”

In a statement to People, the book’s Dutch publishers called the naming of royals an “error” and said that a “rectified edition” of the book would be back on shelves in December. Meanwhile, anyone with a non-English copy of Endgame should get to reading. Maybe the Italian edition has the goss on when the hell Markle is getting back on Instagram.

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Omid Scobie book: How could the royal naming mistake happen? - BBC.com - Translation

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Omid Scobie says he had never written a version with the name of the person in the race row

So how does the Dutch version of a book have lines that don't appear in the original English edition?

Not any random lines - but a highly damaging reference linking members of the Royal Family to a race row that has rumbled on for years.

That's the royal puzzle after the Dutch translation of Omid Scobie's Endgame appeared to reveal the name of people alleged to have made comments about the skin colour of the baby that Prince Harry and Meghan were expecting.

It's started a wave of speculation, from front pages to social media - including Piers Morgan announcing the alleged names on his TalkTV programme.

And on ITV's This Morning programme on Thursday, Scobie once again said he had "never submitted a book that had their names in it".

The naming in the Dutch language version of Endgame has been presented as a mistake, a very embarrassing one, and the book has been hastily taken off the shelves. But how could it have happened?

The Dutch language edition, Eindstrijd, has a very plain identification of a senior royal and another less specific reference to a second name.

The publisher's managing director, Anke Roelen, said on Tuesday night: "An error occurred in the Dutch translation and is currently being rectified."

As a result, the publishing house, Xander Uitgevers, is "temporarily withdrawing the book", with its release day descending into chaos.

It's now going to be re-released on Friday, in a "rectified" version, say the publishers.

Publishers Xander Uitgevers say it is "temporarily withdrawing" Endgame in the Netherlands

Although the blame was initially placed on the translation process, a comparison of the English and Dutch text doesn't suggest it's about getting some of the phrases or vocabulary mixed up.

The line clearly identifying a member of the Royal Family isn't in the English text, so it hasn't been mistranslated. It seems to have been added.

And an updated message from the publisher now talks of an "error", without mentioning translations, if that has any significance.

The next thought might be that this was part of a draft or a previous edit that had been taken out of other language versions, but had mistakenly not been updated in the Dutch version.

But the author Omid Scobie, speaking on Dutch television on Tuesday, made it clear that any version he had produced had never named names. So that would rule out this having been a draft or remnant of some previous editing that had not been removed.

"There's never been a version that I've produced that has names in it," the author told the RTL Boulevard show.

"The book's available in a number of languages and unfortunately I can't speak Dutch, so I haven't seen the copy for myself, so if there have been any translation errors I'm sure the publisher's got it under control," said Mr Scobie.

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The race row emerged from Oprah Winfrey's interview with Prince Harry and Meghan

In pre-publicity, he had made a specific point of saying that for legal reasons, he wouldn't identify the names involved in the race row that emerged from Prince Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Prince Harry and Meghan themselves have never given the name of the person or persons, who were alleged to have asked questions about the skin colour of their as yet unborn baby.

As Meghan herself has observed about the potential consequences of revealing the name: "I think that would be very damaging to them."

After this was first revealed in the Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021 it sparked a royal race row, and questions about the identity of those involved have become a lingering cloud.

This latest book makes the claim that there were two people involved in asking these questions rather than one.

Apart from an update on Wednesday announcing a new release date, the publisher has still to say what went wrong - but that won't stop those trying to work out what happened.

Could it have been some kind of publishing version of a hack or a hoax? Was it a sales stunt? A prank? Stray text put in for a joke and then not removed? Or someone changing text after the proofreading was finished?

What's surprising is that any other news lines in the book were heavily trailed, including excerpts in the US press and in interviews.

So it might seem odd to bury the biggest bombshell in the middle of the book, without any subsequent explanation of this revelation, and without any kind of highlighting of the claim.

After this short line revealing the name, the Dutch text goes back to the same as the English, while you might expect it to reference back or expand on such a major revelation, which would be the biggest moment in the book.

If a publisher had decided to take such a big decision to reveal this information, it would be its biggest selling point as well as its biggest risk.

Either way, if it was going to be deliberately revealed it's hard to see why it would be tucked away as a single line, mid-text, rather than milked in every way to boost sales.

Buckingham Palace hasn't been commenting on what has appeared in the Dutch edition of Endgame, in a book that already had been taking aim at the senior members of the Royal Family.

The English-language publishers, Harper Collins, have also not responded.

In the wake of the Oprah interview, with its toxic questions about racism and the royals, the late Queen's response had included: "Recollections may vary."

In this latest Dutch whodunnit, it seems translations may vary too.

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The Dictionary Entry for "Perfect" Is Just a Picture of Keke Palmer's Waist-Length Curls - Yahoo Life - Dictionary

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TBH, we think Keke Palmer should host everything: the Oscars, the Grammys, the Met Gala and everything in between. The multi-hyphenate is so charismatic and talented that she makes it look effortless, and if more hosting gigs means more beauty inspo, all the better.

Palmer recently hosted the Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles, and though she changed up her style several times throughout the ceremony, the waist-length curls she wore to perform her song “Ungorgeous” may just be our favorite look of the night, which is really saying something given she also rocked a slicked-down, middle-parted ponytail and voluminous honey-blonde bombshell curls, not to mention the many pre-show promo looks. (More curl inspo right this way.)

To perform the heartfelt ballad, Palmer slipped into a white lace minidress and a matching sheer duster. Her hair was swept back from her face and worn loose, the curls flowing all the way down her back and over one shoulder as she sang. Hairstylist Keshaun Williamson, who also goes by Lace Assassin and frequently works with Palmer, used Bold Hold Lace America Liquid Gold and Lace Gelly on the install and bundles from D Hair Boutique to bring Palmer's look to life for her spotlight moment.

“For the show, we wanted to do a few different changes since she was hosting and changing outfits,” Williamson told Allure. “The outfits each had a different vibe, so we chose hairstyles that fit the vibe of each look.” For the performance portion, Williamson wanted something that would work well with the elements given it was outdoors. “We were dealing with wind, so I decided to have the hair out of her face so it wouldn't be a problem.” He used a crimping iron to create a uniform wave that would “be harder to separate and blow everywhere.”

An equally romantic, dramatic winged smoky eye, fluttery lash and lined lip courtesy makeup artist Kenya Alexis provided the perfect finishing touch. Later in the evening, Palmer transformed the curls into an afterparty-ready half-up style and celebrated with T-Pain.

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Then again, this is Keke Palmer we're talking about here. The actor/musician/podcast host/new mom never fails to serve up the glam, even when she's not hosting an awards show. We've seen her channel Farrah Fawcett with lots of body and bounce; give bright blue streaks a try; channel Barbie in bright platinum blonde; throw it back to Whitney Houston's ‘80s curls; and even make rainbow butterfly clips cool again.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Did the Dutch Edition of Omid Scobie Book Name Royal Racist? - The Cut - Translation

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According to Google Translate, the passage details an exchange of letters between Charles and Markle, in which the then-prince expressed sadness for the “huge distance between the two parties and that he was disappointed that the couple had gone public.” He was apparently referring to the Sussexes’ big Oprah interview in 2021, during which Markle said there were “concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie’s] skin might be when he’s born.” The former actress declined to name the person who’d made the comments, saying that it “would be very damaging to them.” Oprah later told CBS that Prince Harry wanted to clarify that it was not Queen Elizabeth nor her husband, Prince Philip. The idea that it might’ve been Charles surfaced later that year, in a biography claiming he made the remarks to Queen Camilla around the time of Markle and Harry’s 2017 engagement. In Scobie’s telling, Charles wrote Markle to say “there was no ill will or bias when he spoke about his future grandson. ‘He wanted to clarify something he felt was very important.’”

Of course, it’s unclear whether or not this version of the book was based on an earlier draft or whether there was a rogue Dutch translator who felt like being messy. In a statement to People, the book’s Dutch publishers called it an “error” and said that a “rectified edition” of the book would be back on shelves in December. Meanwhile, anyone with a non-English copy of Endgame should get to reading. Maybe the Italian edition has the goss on when the hell Markle is getting back on Instagram.

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