Word list no easy chore for Spelling Bee
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"Cortege" got demoted after the death of Princess Diana, when the media used the French-sounding word over and over to describe the funeral procession.
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LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters Life!) - Fancy trying your hand at creative writing but can't quite find the time? Tired of scribbling away all by yourself?
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"C-E-A-S-E" and "D-E-S-I-S-T" aren't particularly high-scoring Scrabble words -- just 7 points each -- but in the real world they carry some clout.
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Examples of buzzwords that make IT unintelligible.
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Corrects spelling of Rice title in paragraph to Secretary of State from Secretary of Stage
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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she studied hard to prepare for Tuesday night's airing of "Celebrity Jeopardy!"
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Just been doing some heavy translation from German to English. Which lead to writing a simple command line tool for translating via Google - waste time to save time in other words. Getting a prototype up from scratch took about 15 minutes (which sheds a light on blog spam I guess). Have cleaned it up a bit and dropping it here in case anyone can use it.
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By Jennifer C. Yates, Associated Press  PITTSBURGH -- A few simple keystrokes soon may turn blather into books.
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Here's a way to test your Web savvy: Have you  searched for the word Bebo?
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary unburdens 16,000 words of their hyphens.
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Evan O'Dorney always eats fish before his spelling bees. The brain food apparently has served him well: He's the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.
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The notion that cheap or free Web-based word processing or spreadsheet programs could replace traditional software like Microsoft Office (MSFT) is becoming more realistic all the time. Outfits like Google (GOOG), ThinkFree, and Zoho have new and better services every day.
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Anyone desperate for a break from crunching numbers, minding the kids or studying for exams knows how easy it can be to find distraction in the simple brain teasing of computer games like Sudoku, solitaire or mahjong.
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If you are like many parents, there's a good chance you can't remember the last time you solved for X, were never really confident about the rules for when to use a comma, and find that the hourly rate for private tutors can be a bit daunting.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Not only did the word &quot;blog&quot; enter Merriam-Webster&#39;s dictionary this year, but Microsoft is getting on the personalized e-journal bandwagon.
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Merriam-Webster, the US dictionary publisher, says the word &quot;Blog&quot; is the number one word of 2004 among its list of the top 10 words looked up on their dictionary Web sites.
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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.