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What’s in a Word?
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What’s in a Word?
By Michael Duduit
Founding editor of Preaching and Dean of the Graduate School of Ministry at Anderson University in Anderson, South Carolina
If anyone knows words, it should be the fine people at the Merriam-Webster company, who publish a variety of dictionaries. Each year, it seems, they scour the culture to search out those new words and phrases that have come into common use, and this year they’ve added more than 100 new entries to their Collegiate Dictionary (according to a story in the July 7 Dallas Morning News).Among the new entries for the latest edition:Air quotes is defined as "gestures made by raising and flexing the...

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