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Moon Palace - 17 August 2020
53 minutes Posted Aug 16, 2020 at 11:59 pm.
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What happens in a classroom of refugee and immigrant youngsters learning English? Their fresh approach to language can result in remarkable poetry — some of which is collected in the anthology England: Poems from a School. Also, new language among healthcare professionals: the term cohorting describes the act of grouping patients with COVID-19 in designated facilities. But what’s the word for reintegrating them into the general patient population after treatment. Decohorting, maybe? Finally, who can resist all those independent bookstores with tantalizing names like Moon Palace and Mysterious Galaxy? Also, black-hearted buzzardneshlividmuckleFiddler’s Greencome go home with us, a confounding puzzle about words containing the letters C-O-N, and more.

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