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What’s in a Word?

Michael Duduit

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 index and middle fingers of both hands, used to call attention to a spoken word or expression." If this is an appropriate entry, then I’d suggest they also add bop you one, which is what my dad did to "call attention" to my failure to obey promptly.Dirty bomb is a "bomb designed to release radioactive...

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