In Search of Words to Describe Annoyances

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If I were a linguist, I would set about trying to rediscover the perfect words to describe practices that can annoy even the most stoic among us.

Visitors to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary site have looked up the word "bailout" so often in these troubled financial times the dictionary has made the noun its Word of the Year for 2008.

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In Search of Words to Describe Annoyances

It's not so much that people don't have a general understanding that the word means "a rescue (as of a corporation) from financial distress," said John Morse, Merriam-Webster's president and publisher. Lo...

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