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'Blog' Tops U.S. Dictionary's Words of the Year
Tue Nov 30, 2004 02:12 PM ET
By Greg Frost
BOSTON (Reuters) - A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year.
Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was one of the most looked-up words on its Internet sites this year.
Eight entries on the publisher's top-10 list related to major news events, from the presidential election -- represented by words such as incumbent and partisan -- to natural phenomena such as hurricane and cicada.
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Blog will be a new entry in the 2005 version of the Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The complete list of words of the
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Blog will be a new entry in the 2005 version of the Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The complete list of words of the
year is available at http:/www.merriam-webster.com/info/04words.htm
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