Wags earn their place in the dictionary
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Â· New edition of Collins reflects changing language  Â· Hoodie, muffin top and Gitmo among new entries
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By Kaser, Dick  google (transitive verb): "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the World Wide Web." It's now official. You can legitimately use google (with a lowercase "g") as a verb, according to the latest edition of Merriam- Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
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It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.
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PITTSBURGH - It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. :-)
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The most requested online definition this year was &quot;blog,&quot; Merriam-Webster says. Editors had planned to include &quot;blog&quot; in the 2005 annual update of both the print and online versions of Merriam-Webster&#39;s 11th
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Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ) has gotten a face-lift this week, and in more ways than one. Not only did the search engine add some functionality but also someone over there decided to give the PG Wodehouse-inspired
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By Sosnowski, Carolyn J  Looking for a Word? Here's a reverse dictionary that can help you find the perfect bon mot.
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Blog Declared Word of the Year  US Dictionary Merriam-Webster&rsquo;s has announced that the word &#8220;blog&#8221; is their word of the year in their annual pronouncement of the Top 10 words of 2004, which also bizarrely included the words cicada and defenestration. Webster&rsquo;s defines a blog as &#8220;a Web site that contains ...
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BOSTON: A four-letter term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media in this year&#39;s presidential campaign tops US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.
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The word &quot;Blog&quot; is the word of the year by Merriam-Webster, the renowned American dictionary publisher. According to Merriam-Webster, the word &quot;blog&quot;, short for Weblog, is a
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The folks at Merriam-Webster (publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary) have released their Top Ten list for 2004. Topping the list is the word &quot;blog,&quot; which most of us know all about from firsthand experience.
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BLOG, a contraction of the term âweb log,â is the latest geekspeak to enter Merriam-Websterâs Top-10 list of words for 2004.
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Also: Software speaks dogs' language. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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PITTSBURGH - Dude, you've got to read this.  A linguist from the University of Pittsburgh has published a scholarly paper deconstructing and deciphering the word "dude," contending it is much more than a catchall for lazy, inarticulate surfers, skaters, slackers and teenagers.
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The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries said the most requested definition on the company&#39;s Internet sites during 2004 was the four-letter word meaning ``a Web site that contains an
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CHICAGO - "Animal Grossology," the new exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, could easily have been a lot grosser. Sure, there's plastic excrement in the exhibit room, skunk scent for spritzing, and robot animals that use cutesy terms like "barf" and "dookie" while talking about hairballs and digestive tracts...
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"w00t," an expression of joy coined by  online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the  publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary.