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- THE word "minority" is often used to describe a "small group of people within a community or country, differing from the main population in race, religion, language or political persuasion, (Oxford Dictionary of English). We in Fiji are…
- Fiji Times
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- 12 hours ago
- Mobile County spelling bee won on 'mariachi,' 'samovar' and…
- View full size (Creative Commons/Mariluna) The Oxford Dictionary defines a samovar as a Russian urn used for making tea. So, maybe you can spell the word "mariachi." But could you - without looking - spell "samovar?" Or, better yet, say…
- Everything Alabama Blog
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- 1 day ago
- Facebook's "Unfriend" is Word of the Year
- We just tossed the rotten jack-o’-lantern and already New Oxford American Dictionary announces its “Word of the Year.” For 2009, that word is a verb, one which we in our social-network obsessed culture should be very familiar: “Unfriend: To…
- NBC Washington
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- 11/17/2009
- British game show asks question about American prisons.
- The British game show Quite Interesting hosted by the comedic actor Stephen Fry tackles the subject of the American gaol (the Oxford Dictionary spelling of jail) population. As always, the erudite QI uncovers some statistical gems…
- Democratic Underground.com
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- 2/8/2010
- Review: A Pair of Pinters
- His influential style has been much copied and has even earned him place in the Oxford English dictionary – "Pinteresque". Derby Live's first homegrown production of the 2010 gives us snapshot of Pinter by eschewing his most celebrated…
- This is Derbyshire
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- 6 hours ago
- Facebook Verb Named English Word of the Year
- "Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent. Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking…
- CNBC
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- 11/17/2009
- Why North is afraid to lose power –Adeniran
- Yar’Adua’s absence First, I go to my Oxford Dictionary, which defines vice as next in rank to and able to deputise for. For example, Vice President, so there’s no reason why Jonathan should not be able to deputise effectively for the…
- Daily Sun
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- 2/1/2010
- Energy From The Vacuum. With Jhon Bedini.
- Now, the skeptical people and engineers would ask me, how is it possible that anything can possibly violate the second law of thermodynamics? What this bunch of people dont know is that if you go buy an Oxford dictionary of Physics, at…
- neowin.net
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- 2/6/2010
- "Unfriend" named word of 2009
- NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - "Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent. 'Unfriend' was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a…
- Vancouver Sun
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- 2/5/2010
- Oxford and Cambridge failing to recruit enough Indian,…
- Britneys for beers", "phwoar", "stud muffin" make it to Oxford English Dictionary! . Meet the man who's read the entire 22,000-pages of the Oxford English Dictionary! . Nirad Chaudhuri honoured by Oxford, his adopted home .
- Newstrack India
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- 2/3/2010