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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... by Mumin Salih
"It is the flat floor of the universe. The Quran views the earth as an equal, but opposite to the sky. Again there are seven similar earths. Some Muslims claim that Allah meant the seven layers of earth, which cannot be true because the Quran says similar earths. The... 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... Google taking over the dictionary?
At a public meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America held in Chicago, Erin McKean, Editor-in-Chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary 2e told the audience “We’re Googletudinous.” The occasion was an "open microphone" session where audience members... horizon - etymology & story - podictionary 560
Henry Kissinger once said: "“For other nations, Utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.”" This sounds like a nice sentiment but perhaps Kissinger should have chosen another word than horizon. As Mark Pattison, a...press - etymology & story - podictionary 558
In old movies you sometimes see the reporter elbowing his way through the crowd with a fedora on his head and stuck into the band of the hat is a little sign “press.” These days we talk about the media more than the press and this is appropriate because the news...destination - etymology & story - podictionary 557
The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English defines destination as: "“a place to which a person or thing is going”" This is in fact one of those examples of human laziness because this sense of destination is actually short for the phrase place of destination. The...ponder - etymology & story - podictionary 556
To ponder something is to think about it. Although the first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is for ponder as a noun, the verb, as we use it, actually has a longer history. It appears first in the written record in the late 1300s and not surprisingly...text - etymology & story - podictionary 555
The other day I was listening to a radio piece about teenagers driving, what with all the grad parties that had been going on. What struck me was one cop’s description of impaired driving that extended beyond driving drunk. She said drivers were sometimes... mesmerized - etymology & story - podictionary 554
If I look up the word mesmerized in a modern dictionary it
will tell me that to be mesmerized is to be fascinated and almost put
into a trance, or hypnotized. The New Oxford American Dictionary gives the following example sentence:
"“she was mesmerized by the blue... guillotine - podictionary 552 -etymology & story
Doctor Joseph Guillotin was a reformer and compassionate public representative in the days leading up to the French Revolution. It’s too bad that he’s remembered in the name we give the head-chopping instrument by which so many of France’s revolutionary victims...McDonald’s insulted by definition of ‘McJob’
I guess they could have updated it to include some of the other horror aspects one hears about anecdotally….such as bullying - how to give out the wrong order in the drive-though most times etc… Has anyone...Wiki elevated to Oxford English Dictionary
As the English language evolves, certain words of foreign or Frankensteinian origin find themselves part of their daily use. The Oxford English Dictionary: Like the Hollywood Walk of Fame, only for words. "It's official: "wiki" is now a fully-fledged member of the English...Devils Dictionary Redux
"Originally published on my page at Bloglines With apologies to Ambrose Bierce who had the original idea. My definitions of some popular words and phrases. Devils Dictionary Redux"In These Times [news]
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