Benjamin Errett
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
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- Aug 28, 2026
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Parlance of our Times: ‘Resurface’ (opens the original)
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Welcome to Parlance of our Times, a new biweekly pop-culture etymology column that unpacks a word or phrase that is suddenly everywhere. This week: “Resurface” To appear again after being lost, forgotten or, in the case of a social-media post, deleted. Everything was going so well for Ted Kaczynski. At least until the events portrayed in the new Netflix biopic Unabomber, when, per the synopsis, “Kaczynski’s troubled past resurfaces.” Once that happened, authorities tracked the murderous mathemat
Parlance of our Times: ‘Lock in’ (opens the original)
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Welcome to Parlance of our Times, a new biweekly pop-culture etymology column that unpacks a word or phrase that is suddenly everywhere. This week: ‘Lock in’ 1. v., To enter a state of complete focus. 2. n., A performative social-media challenge. It’s way past time to lock in. This year’s Great Lock In, a TikTok challenge in which participants eliminate distractions such as TikTok in order to accomplish lofty goals, began on Sept. 1. And even if you’re not participating, this is the season to ge
Parlance of our times: ‘Body count’ (opens the original)
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Welcome to Parlance of our Times, a new biweekly pop-culture etymology column that unpacks a word or phrase that is suddenly everywhere. This week: ‘Body count’ 1. The number of enemy dead in a military operation. 2. The number of sexual partners a person has had. When we count bodies, what exactly are we counting? The phrase “body count” first came into popular usage after then-U.S. defence secretary Robert McNamara identified it as the primary metric of success in Vietnam. In previous conflict
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