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Pagoda
 Post subject: These are Merriam Webster's words of the year
PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:41 pm 
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These are the most researched word on their online site.


I was quite pleased to see #s 1,7, and 10

Hooray for Denfestration

I think I shall go denfestrate Derris


Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2004

Based on your online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was
Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
Click on each of the other words in the Top Ten List for their definitions in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration

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people don't know how to spell or know the meaning of 'hurricane' enough to get it on a top 10 list?

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Wow, that is incredibly interesting!
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people don't know how to spell or know the meaning of 'hurricane' enough to get it on a top 10 list?


I think that was most drunk people looking for one of New Orlean's most headache inducing tasty drinks!

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 Post subject: Re: These are Merriam Webster's words of the year
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Pagoda Wrote:
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race


hmm... so that's why the delgados named an album such. you learn something new everyday.
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Who the fuck is looking up 'electoral'?

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They forgot Fistable.

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10: defenestration,

Funny, I was reading a book last night that had this word in it. I meant to look it up today but forgot until I saw this thread.

From dictionary.com

defenestration

n : the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
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Dude! Openly just spit out some of my beer.

I think you reached my humor level.
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I was so betting on quaqmire
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