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Word of the week (Jan 18, 2009) & Bush’s farewell speech

19 Jan 2009 – 15:59

This was the last week of President Bush’s 8-year term in office. He gave a farewell speech and people have been preparing for the huge inauguration in Washington (tomorrow, at this point). The East Coast was particularly cold—I learned this from my mom, and also from coverage of the US Airways plane that crashed into [...]

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Words of the Month (December 2008)

11 Jan 2009 – 19:54

Here’s a tag cloud from all the entries of my word-of-the-week polls (on Mechanical Turk) for December 2008!

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Word of the Week (Jan 11, 2009)

11 Jan 2009 – 18:48

The beginning of 2009 brings more financial woes, threats of impeachment (Blagojevich), and the highest unemployment rate since 1993. Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on January 11, 2009.

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Word of the week (Jan 4, 2009)

3 Jan 2009 – 15:22

First set of the new year! Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on January 4, 2009, in the style of fireworks!

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Word of the Week (Dec 28, 2008)

29 Dec 2008 – 13:32

Last week was Christmas and holiday vacations. Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on December 28, 2008 ache alahvet ambiguous appreciative approvingly balance ballin believe bizarre busy cantankerous cash chaotic christmas chromatic circumspect cold compassion crazy decongestant depression devotion disappointing dreary early ecstatic ending enjoy enjoyment erode erroneous eschatological exhausted [...]

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