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Laughing Stalk is a weekly newspaper humor column about current events and personal observations. It's published in ten weekly newspapers around Indiana, and has been around since 1994.

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Travel Through Time With the Merriam-Webster Dictionary

on July 31, 2026

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I’ve Never Recovered From 6th Grade My Spelling Bee

on April 24, 2026

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The Un-Phonetic Alphabet

on March 11, 2026

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Hunker Down and Batten Down the Hatches

on February 06, 2026

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Wayne State Word Warriors Want to Bring Back These Words

on January 16, 2026

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Plz Avoid Text-Speak

on May 30, 2025

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Wayne State Reintroduces Forgotten Words Back to the Wild

on January 17, 2025

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LSSU's Banished Words List for 2025 Has Dropped

on January 03, 2025

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So Demure, So Skibidi: Making Modern Slang With 700-Year-Old French

on November 15, 2024

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Corporate Jargonauts Are Ruining English

on September 27, 2024

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Shakespeare Invented "All of a Sudden"

on February 16, 2024

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Wayne State University Brings Back Forgotten Words

on January 12, 2024

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What's Wrong With the Word 'Moist'?

on November 17, 2023

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