Evo-Devo
n.— «Since the early 1990s, he has been instrumental in the reintegration of development and evolution into Evolutionary Developmental Biology, also known as “Evo-Devo.”» —“Luc Devroye, Brian Hall, Linda Hutcheon, Margaret Lock And Nahum Sonenberg To Receive $100,000 Killam Prizes For 2005” in Ottawa Government of Canada Mar. 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s book Demon Copperhead is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield set in today’s Appalachia. Martha shares memories of a long-ago visit to Kingsolver’s family farm in Virginia, where they...
Is there such a thing as a “neutral” accent, and if so what does it sound like? And that quirk in the way southern Californians talk about freeways. They’ll say things like take the 405 and get on the 8. Why the definite article...