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Web 2.0 as Millionth English Word? Could've Been Worse
So, Web 2.0 has been crowned the millionth word in the English language. Surprise, surprise. What were you expecting it to be? "Newspaper"? "“As expected, English crossed the 1,000,000 word threshold on June 10, 2009 at 10:22 am GMT. However, some 400 years... Doug Ross Exposes Media's Pack Mentality
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary offers several definitions of the word, "pack." When it comes to members of the mainstream media and their treatment of the subject of Americans without health insurance, blogger Doug Ross found that one definition is most applicable: "A... By Any Definition, Barack Obama is a Socialist
Many Americans find it difficult to place their trust in President Barack Obama. Why? Because, by any definition*, he is a socialist intent upon forcing socialism on the people of the United States. Don't believe it? Then consider three definitions of "socialism," courtesy... Dictionary adds new words
Board (bored?) gamers wanting to improve their Balderdash skills will want to check out the new words being added to the dictionary this year. There's about a hundred of them, many of which pertain to cooking for...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
2475 views | 12 recommendations | 32 comments
2475 views | 12 recommendations | 32 comments
Merriam-Webster's word of '07: 'w00t'
"SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t." "W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped...Does Google Still Matter?
There was a story today in Advertising Age about how McDonalds is trying to re-brand the McJob as something that doesn't suck (good luck with that). So I went to Google to see what came up in their results for...Google No.1 search engine
"According to statistics released today, it shown that about two thirds of all web searches in the USA are carried out through Google. This March, Hitwise conducted a research and shown that Yahoo was the second well known search engine which has 21 percent market share.""Truthiness" is named Word of the Year
"SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness." The word - if one can call it that - best summed...
created by Edmund Jenks | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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723 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations
Somebody get the guys at Google a Kleenex...""Google, becoming more and more concerned about the growing use of the word google as a verb, has fired off warning letters to numerous media organizations warning them against using its name as a verb. This follows google (with a...Dictionary adds google as verb
"Google is now officially a verb in the English language. "
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