Ginormous Gets Added to the Dictionary
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The new Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, which will go on sale this fall, will include new words. One of these is ginormous, a combination of the words "gigantic" and "enormous." It was picked as favorite word not in the dictionary by vi...
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Boston - A four-letter term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media during this year&#39;s presidential campaign tops United States dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.
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Semantics based search is the flavor of my articles and in this one I&#8217;ll be focusing on the Textonomy suite of products from Crystal Semantics, now acquired by the e-advertising firm ad pepper media.  The company was co-founded by Professor David Crystal, a world authority in linguistics. The textonomy product has at its heart a [...]
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Description: The most requested word on Merriam-Webster&#39;s Web site isn&#39;t in the dictionary yet. The word is blog. It will be in the next edition.
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Listings on Amazon.com hint at possible pricing and release info for Microsoft's next edition of Windows. Plus: Upcoming.org adds Yahoo Local events. In Monkey Bites.
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What's in a word? Maybe more than you think.
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Hoodies, wags, carbon footprints and muffin tops have entered the English language, according to the ninth edition of the Collins English Dictionary launched Monday.
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NEW YORK - &quot;Blog&quot; is now the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its frequent lookup paralleled its growth on the political scene this year as keepers of Web logs
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A friend of Rufus writes FoTW It appears that the now-legendary Rufus - he of Gadspot.com's battling tech support who called one customer a "a pain in the butt" then reserved the right to "server" him "for being mean" - has has become a torchbearer for obstreperous dictionary-dodgers worldwide.â¦
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Yes, it's that time again: a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, when we learn that words like "splitsville" and "pimpmobile" are officially part of the language
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Launching off from this previous post on the Stubbles Blog, two more posts (from two other developers) have been posted on the same subject:  In this new post, Frank Kleine takes things a step further and talks about the same kind of type hinting but for more types - including arrays and objects. Examples of how he'd expect things to work followed. The other post is from Stephan Schmidt again and varies slightly off into the world of Namespaces to be included in PHP6 along with the use of annotations.  Be sure to check out the comments on each for some more interesting tidbits...
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The dictionary module has been integrated into the word processor and is also a stand-alone application in the Works Task Launcher. A thesaurus has been included, as well as the option to set parental controls.
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Tycho:  I uploaded the comic early, as many of you noticed.  I entered the wrong number in the update field.  You may also have noticed that the spelling in these posts has really gone to hell.  So, that's numbers and letters.  I hope to one day discover a set of pictograms with which I can manage some baseline fucking proficiency.
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By Edited by Katie Stirling  THANKS to Claire Collins, of Ayr, who wins my weekly tenner with this daft picture.  If you have a funny internet image, why not share it with us? Please include your full postal address.  (c) 2006 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK).
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A photojournalist who can write...CS3's link to Omniture...Olympus' raw codec for Windows Vista...film scanners rated...OLPC ups and downs...nice NYT neologisms
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)
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