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on grammar guy the web Visit TelegraphHerald.com to see area concert listings. Rating the newest additions to the dictionary your horoscope BY CURTIS HONEYCUTT which you can either work out or Garbageologist: A specific kind this one’s a winner. 10/10. BY EUGENIA LAST For the Telegraph Herald lounge around the house watching of sociologist/archaeologist who Silver fox: An attractive older Netflix. I think we’re trying incredibly studies cultures based on their trash. man, usually donning a silvery or If your birthday is Did you know that hard to justify wearing sweatpants as One person’s trash is another per- white coif of hair. See also “George today: Take control, be hundreds of words get often as possible. 3/10. son’s job. It seems like the OED really Clooney” or “Anderson Cooper.” direct, and ask for what added to dictionaries Buzzer beater: A shot made right focused on garbage words for this 7/10. you want. It’s up to you every year? as time expires in a basketball game. update. 2/10. Voter fraud: Intentionally cor- to take advantage of If that fact surprised Thankfully, this phrase doesn’t have LOL: An acronym for “laughing rupting the voting process by illegally what’s available to you. you, well, buckle up, to do with harming bees. I’m glad the out loud” that originated in late 20th voting (voting multiple times, voting Taking swift action will buttercup, because I just NBA is back, and it’s finally getting century AOL chat rooms and has by dead people, voting by people not keep you ahead of any lied. In fact, hundreds of words get the dictionary respect it deserves. wormed its way into the dictionary. eligible to vote, etc.). See also “dis- competition you face. added to dictionaries every month. 8/10. OMG. 1/10. mantling the US Postal Service.” 0/10. Make positive change Can you imagine having an exhaus- Garbage time: Another bas- Oat milk: Milk derived from oats. What words do you want to see in tive hardback dictionary at this ketball term. Even the dictionary is As if we didn’t have enough milk the dictionary? What words should your objective to achieve point? It would span volumes. missing sports. When a game is out options already, scientists figured out get the boot? the best results. I’m going to share some of the of hand and the result is no longer in how to milk female oat kernels just so VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. highlights of the newest entries into question, the coach will send in the hipster baristas can add another fifty Honeycutt is a syndicated humor 22): Verify information the Oxford English Dictionary and least talented players on the team. cents to our latte order. 3/10. columnist. He is the author of “Good that comes your way. provide a rating for each word on a The existence of garbage time is the Shero: A female hero. I’m a fan of Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips Don’t rely on others to scale of one to 10. only reason I ever got to play in mid- portmanteaus (smashing two words for a Wildly Successful Life.” Visit give you the information Athleisure: Casual clothing in dle school basketball. 7/10. together to make a new word), and curtishoneycutt.com. you require. Handle legal and financial mat- ters yourself. Put more thought into your per- sonal life. bruce’s history lesson LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Take the initiative to do what’s best for you. Step away from people The process of the yellow Star of David who lower your self-es- teem and toy with your BY BRUCE KAUFFMANN wear a yellow Star of David, with the Jews, people in and in German population in much the emotions. Don’t jump For the Telegraph Herald German word for Jew, “Jude,” on all German-occupied lands such as same way they had targeted Jews. into something you ar- outer garments. Poland and Czechoslovakia began All public displays of sympathy for Editor’s note: Bruce The goal clearly was to identify to sympathize with the Jews, many of the Jews were banned, and violators en’t ready for. Kauffmann died on July Jews and increase their harassment whom, due to their terrible treatment were sentenced to time in German SCORPIO (Oct. 24- 18 after a short battle with by non-Jewish Germans. The official by the Nazis, looked emaciated and concentration camps. “Anyone taking Nov. 22): Deal with a cancer. This will be his decree was signed on Sept. 19 by Re- impoverished. his (a Jew’s) side must be regarded sensitive issue before final installment. inhard Heydrich, chief deputy to the The German people had been fed and treated as a Jew,” wrote the Reich it escalates. Pay atten- man charged with ridding Germany a daily diet of Nazi propaganda that Minister of Propaganda, Joseph tion to loved ones and Even before he took of its Jews, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich the Jews were devious masterminds Goebbels. friends you might have power in Germany in 1934, Adolf Himmler. who had planned and started the war Unfortunately, the Nazi Party’s ulti- neglected due to your Hitler planned to rid Germany of To German Jews, it was a sign that Germany was fighting in order to de- mate reaction to this surprising sym- busy schedule. Romance its Jewish population, although his their days as German citizens were stroy the Deutschland. Yet, these Jews pathy for the Jews was a hardening of is encouraged. Make original goal was the deportation of numbered, and many of them com- wearing these Star of David patches its position regarding the ultimate fate peace when necessary. all Jews. mitted suicide rather than be forced hardly fit that description. of the Jews, and the policy of deport- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. As part of that process, various into the concentration camps that Soon, many Germans, Poles and ing all Jews soon became a policy of 23-Dec. 21): Look at the decrees were issued, and laws passed were springing up in occupied Poland Czechs (the latter resentful of German murdering all Jews. possibilities, but don’t that gradually stripped Jews of their and Germany. In Berlin alone, some occupation of their lands) were “tip- Three months later, in January of jump into something economic and political rights. 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