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Word of the Week (Jan 25, 2009)

26 Jan 2009 – 22:30

What happened last week? Obama was inaugurated—that’s pretty big news! Maybe the rest was a hodgepodge of other nonsense? Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending January 25, 2009:

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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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Word of the Week (Oct 5, 2008)

5 Oct 2008 – 10:36

I’m starting a new game (let’s see if I can keep this up)! Every week I will use Mechanical Turk to ask 100 people for their “word of the week”—whatever seems to capture their experiences for the week—and then create a tag cloud. It would be interesting if themes emerged from week to week that [...]

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