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Words to Live by for 2007Staff reports - January 01, 2008
Top 10 Words
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007
The dictionary company said thousands took part in the polling for its annual Word of the Year. The winner was, appropriately, an expression for victory popular in the gaming world: w00t.
Definitions for the rest of the top 10 words based on voting on the Merriam-Webster Web site can be found in its online and open dictionaries.
2. facebook
3. conundrum
4. quixotic
5. blamestorm
6. sardoodledom
7. apathetic
8. Pecksniffian
9. hypocrite
10. charlatan
Words and Phrases We Are So Over
We love this list. Michigan's Lake Superior State University offers up words and phrases that should be banned - the overused, the incorrect and the cliched.
The school's 2007 list includes:
perfect storm
Webinar
organic
author/authored
post 9/11
surge
give back
'blank' is the new 'blank'
decimate
emotional
It is what it is
under the bus
For the full list, go to www.lssu.edu/
Top 10 Books
Barnes & Noble offers up its top 10 based on sales.
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
2. The Secret (Rhonda Byrne)
3. Deceptively Delicious (Jessica Steinfeld)
4. Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
6. Eclipse (Stephenie Meyer)
7. The Dangerous Book for Boys (Conn Iggulden)
8. The Secret (CD version)
9. I Am America (And So Can You) (Stephen Colbert)
10. Double Cross (James Patterson)
For a more subjective top 10 list of the best reads for 2007, try The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
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