Posted by admin on January 3rd, 2009
The word of the year for 2008 is hypermile. To hypermile is to maximize gas mileage by making fuel-conserving adjustments to driving techniques. It took [...]
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Posted by admin on January 1st, 2009
Leading etymologists, grammarians and armchair language-lovers across Canada and the U.S. have been busy submitting their nominations for the American Dialect Society’s 19th annual Word of the Year competition.
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Posted by admin on December 30th, 2008
When two of Wall Street’s top securities firms — Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, crashed in September, it wasn’t the first sign the nation’s economy was in trouble, but it was one of the loudest, like the shot heard ’round the world.
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