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December 2020
Words, words. Loads of new ones
By Jean Godden
If Shakespeare were around today, he'd have a heck of a time understanding us. While we still do speak English, the language he used writing the world's most famous plays, we've been mighty busy since then adding new words and using old ones in novel ways.
English is a living language, always changing, more dynamic and expressive. As playwright Will knew, language is not meant to be static. He himself added 1700 words to the then young language (Elizabethan English), words like bandit, critic, swagger, scuffle, grovel, madcap and zany.
Like all languages, English evolves from three main influences: (1) movement of people from other locations, (2) the influence of technology, and (3) appropriation of useful foreign words like tsunami, avatar, schadenfreude and kitschy.
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Dropping temperatures and rising COVID cases lead to a spherical solution for Ballard restaurant San Fermo
By Avrelle Harrington
Nestled in on a popular Ballard street, a quaint white house sits with a line of people out the door. San Fermo isn’t even open for dinner yet, but hungry customers are waiting for a chance to dine at a new rendition of the “best seat in the house.”
Amid increasing COVID-19 restrictions in Washington state, San Fermo, a local Italian restaurant was left with a major dining space issue. Tim Baker, the owner of San Fermo, decided to “think out of the box” by thinking about dining inside a bubble.
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Jerry's View: Christmas from both sides of life
By Jerry Robinson
Publisher Emeritus 1920~2014
Originally published in 2012
I still look forward to Christmas even though Oregon Bank and Trust is now calling it something else and is probably not sponsoring Bank Day at grade schools anymore.
Starting in the first grade, I took my nickel or dime to school every Tuesday for Bank Day deposit. It was money I made, sometimes as much as a quarter, selling perfume or flower seeds or Liberty Magazine to neighbors down the street.
We lived in a middle class area (rented for $15a month) near an extended family that owned the Hog Ranch, the Slaughter House and a cooperage (they made wooden barrels) and even in the twenties and thirties during the Great Depression they had money.
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Keeping Track
Where area sports stars meet their future
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Spirit of West Seattle luminaries hope to cultivate a spirit of unity
“The Spirit of West Seattle” luminaries and candles, a special program that aims to bring together neighbors, families, and friends all participating in the lighting at home on the same day, at the same time is sponsored by the West Seattle Junction and set for Dec.19 at 7pm
“The Spirit of West Seattle” is a celebration and reminder that while we may not be together in-person, we are together as a community.
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WA inmates say they're retaliated against for getting COVID-19
People in work release programs say getting sick can get you thrown back into prison, where there’s still no plan for containment.
By Lilly Fowler / Crosscut.com
Milo Burshaine viewed the Bishop Lewis Work Release Facility in Seattle as his last stop before freedom.
The facility is designed for prisoners with good behavior who are nearing the end of their sentences and are preparing to transition back into the real world. While there, Burshaine, who has a history of drug addiction, worked, attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and attempted to reign in his depression. He looked forward to the Washington state Department of Corrections releasing him in a few months.
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The pandemic will forever change how doctors define 'crisis'
UW’s Dr. Kate Butler explains what doctors need to better support each other and their patients when resources are scarce.
When a hospital declares a crisis, doctors know they may have to ration supplies, equipment and personnel. And while medical rationing of any kind is a sticky, emotionally draining directive that clinicians avoid at all costs, it becomes exponentially worse when doctors have to decide who can be saved most efficiently.
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UPDATE: Power outage affects more than 3700 in SW Seattle; Now resolved
Update 7pm
The power has been restored.
Update 4:15pm
Most of the original outage that began shortly after 2pm in the White Center area has been restored. Only 397 were still without power around 4:15pm but for them the 9pm restoration time remained.
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A power outage, possibly from a downed power line, cut the electricity for more than 3700 City Light customers on Saturday.
The outage bordered the west at around 26th SW and on the east by roughly 9th SW through 5th Ave PL SW. On the north it extended from just south of Cloverdale Street SW to the south at SW 117th Street.
The estimated repair time was 9pm on the City Light System Status page.
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