Agony aunt, ATM, blood & guts, colonography, domestic partner, garbology, misery index, smashmouth, and sub woofer, are now some words that make me a little more honored to have been born the year I was.
What a great use of the Internet by Merriam Webster: This website that lets you see what words were born the same year you were.
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When you are looking for a job, you submit an application or a resume. If you submit as resume, you might want to make sure that the most misspelled word in Colorado is correct... Because it might be the one thing that could make you lose out on the job...
The Oxford English Dictionary has added a few new words. Some of them hardly seem like words at all, but have gained popularity through texting, tweeting and emails. What words made the list?
For the second consecutive year, “whatever” has been chosen the most annoying word or phrase of the year among five choices given in a Marist poll.