Summary
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.See the full content of this document
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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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