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Words posts on Wruters Write.
Oxford University Press Monitoring the Blogosphere for New Words (2007-08-17): A short entry on OxfordMail.
Merriam-Webster Adds 100 New Words (2007-07-13): USA Today reports that Merriam-Webster is adding 100 new words to its dictionary.
Crunk Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2007-07-12): Crunk has made its way into the Merriam-Webster dictionary after an evolution of usage that includes hip-hop magazines, sports magazines and the New York Times.
Plutoed Named Word of the Year (2007-01-17): The BBC reports that the American Dialect Society has voted "Plutoed" as the 2006 word of the year.
Truthiness is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year (2006-12-13): Merriam-Webster has announced that they have selected truthiness as the 2006 Word of the Year.
Tech Lingo Still Confuses People (2006-10-05): A British study found that many people are baffled by the onslaught of new tech terms.
Ophidiophobia on a Plane (2006-08-18): The Word of the Day is ophidiophobia: a fear of snakes.
Stephen Colbert and Wikiality (2006-08-05): https://www.
A Color Coded Map of Nouns (2006-07-12): Color Code is an interactive map of 33,000 words, grouped by meaning.
Digg.com and Verb Usage (2006-07-05): In an earlier post today we talked about a new video sharing site with a funny name: (Eefoof.
Podcast is the Word of the Year (2005-12-08): Editor and Publisher reports the New Oxford American Dictionary has declared that the term "podcast" is the Word of the Year.
New Words Added to the Dictionary Include SARS (2005-10-06): It's an exciting day for writers: the new edition of Merriam-Webster's dictionary is out.
Jumping the Couch (2005-08-30): It's time for a visit to the Urban Dictionary to check in on the new phrases being added to the lexicon.
Top Ten Words Not in the Dictionary (2005-05-31): Merriam Webster's website has created a top ten list of people's favorite words that are not in the dictionary.
WordCount Tracks Word Popularity (2005-05-26): WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness.
Lexiteria Says Tsunami is 2004 Word of the Year (2005-01-07): The Lexiteria Corporation, sponsor of the Alpha Dictionary website,
has announced its Word of the Year for 2004.
Merriam-Webster Announces 2004 Words of the Year (2004-12-10): Merriam-Webster Inc.
Word of the Year: Blog (2004-12-01): Blog is the word of the year according to Merriam-Webster.
Word of the Day: Borked (2004-11-10): With the illness of Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist, Washington is gearing up for a big confirmation fight over the next Supreme Court justice.
Word of the Day: Mosh (2004-10-28): Perhaps you might have some vague memories of a college evening spent slam dancing in a mosh pit -- ok, that's so 80's, we know.