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		<title>Conjugate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I went on a great trip this holiday weekend. Rented an adorable cottage, swam in the lake, met new people, etc. So I came home and thought, jokingly, about composing a novella about my trip that would illustrate my adventures and allow me to engage in some titular mocking of Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s Eat, Pray, Love. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New words in the OED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, everyone. Gosh, I&#8217;ve really been remiss in my updates. Let&#8217;s hope someone still reads this.
Today, a colleague passed along an article from Cracked called, &#8220;15 Words You Won&#8217;t Believe They Added to the Dictionary.&#8221; It&#8217;s funny, but it&#8217;s right; I don&#8217;t believe these have been added to the dictionary. I&#8217;d be fun to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intubate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m such a fervent lover of most words, it makes sense that there&#8217;d be a few I dislike, too. Intubate is one of these. It&#8217;s not in my list of the top five most detestable words of all time (I&#8217;ll eventually get to all of them, if not all at once), but it&#8217;s definitely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>808</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I give, 808 is more a series of numbers (or one number) than a word, but still, what does it mean? I&#8217;m talking 808 as in the thing Kelis is back with cuz she&#8217;s bossy or the things that accompany heartbreak in Kanye&#8217;s most recent album. I suspect this is the kind of thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd: A Romantic Semantics book review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m kicking off the new year with the launch of a new feature, the book review. Unlike other book reviews, though, mine will focus on the word most central to each reviewed book and detail the author&#8217;s thoughts about that word. I chose to open this feature with Nerds: Who They Are and Why We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 15th day of Movember &#8212; the month in which men worldwide grow moustaches to raise funds for prostate cancer research and awareness &#8212; I thought it fitting to explore the word &#8220;mo.&#8221; In this context, Mo is Australian slang for moustache.
This month, a bunch of guys at work are sporting Mos (and calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama, the surname of the soon-to-be 44th (but the first African American) President of the United States of America. Obama was elected yesterday with 338 electoral votes and 51% of the popular vote. For many in the US, the word Obama also carries with it connotations of change and hope. I don&#8217;t mean to turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whelm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry is inspired by its predecessor. After thinking for a while about the word überraschen, German for surprise, I started to wonder whether or not it was a compound word. Über, obviously, is a word. It turns out raschen is not a stand-alone, kind of like how people can be overwhelmed but not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinder Überraschung</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nouns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kinder Überraschung, or children surprise (also &#8220;Kinder Egg&#8221;), is the name of a glorious candy egg available in Germany and throughout most of Western Europe. As you might have guessed by its name, each egg has a surprise toy inside.
Kinder Eggs are not available in the U.S. except when brought back by someone who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metrosexual</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nouns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First coined by (go figure) British social commentator Mark Simpson in a 1994 Independent article, metrosexual has grown &#8212; as new words tend to do &#8212; latching itself on to everything from personal grooming habits to pant lengths. Simpson (pictured left), if I may say so, is more of a dandy than a metro.
More on [...]]]></description>
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