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By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 30) -- British newspapers are battling it out for the title of greatest contributor to the English language. "You read it here first: words the Telegraph lexiconated," announced today's Daily Telegraph. The Times of London similarly crowed, "You read it here first: The Times is biggest source for OED." While both broadsheets used the relaunch of the Oxford English Dictionary's website -- which now lists all of the sources for the 3 million quotations that demonstrate word usage, as well as the first written evidence of a word -- to boast about the terms they've added to the ...
Is the Oxford Dictionary the New Urban Dictionary?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- It's that time of year again (or is it tiem?). The Oxford University Press this week released its latest list of new word entries for The New Oxford American Dictionary, and, of course, they are all pop culture, Web-savvy terms, as they've been for just about the past decade (the first edition was published in 2001). Have a look at the full list on the official blog of the Oxford University Press. Surge Desk elected to see how they compared to a slang-happy reference publication, the Urban Dictionary. Begat in 1999 by then college freshman Aaron Peckham, the Urban Dictionary ...
Obama Embarrassed by Americans
By Dave - Politics DailySomehow I don't think this YouTube will go over well in certain parts of the country. In some others, it will be fine. But as RedState notes, the kicker for me is when Obama says he is embarrassed by Americans. Now, I understand the point he is making, but considering the plight of the Dixie Chicks, and his wife (being proud of America for the first time) the words embarrassment and America should not be in the same paragraph in any of his speeches. I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that Obama does not do well off the cuff. On the English only stuff, it's not something I ever worry ...
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