[Ads-l] Friendsgiving

[Nancy Friedman]

Thanks for this, Jesse. I'm getting ready to update my own 2013 post on
Friendsgiving, which is linked in the M-W post. Alas, that link died along
with Typepad, my former blog host, at the end of September. Here's the
resurrected link (which of course has problems of its own, sigh).  #linkrot
https://fritinancyblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/word-of-the-week-friendsgiving/


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On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> Merriam-Webster has examples back to 2007:
>
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/friendsgiving-meaning
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> Jesse Sheidlower
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 10:04:13AM -0500, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >
> https://www.self.com/story/how-to-be-more-social-introvert?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ten_tabs&utm_campaign=FIREFOX-EDITORIAL-TENTABS-2025_11_17&position=9&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=6c02c0c6-6af7-480e-97b9-f1ba3b54619d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.self.com%2Fstory%2Fhow-to-be-more-social-introvert
> > :   Ask a friend to join you for a walk on a slow Sunday. Organize that
> > Friendsgiving potluck instead of hoping someone else will.
> >
> > JL
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> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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