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Is "www.yourdictionary.com" reading our thread? :read:

 

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and this received on 5 Jan from yourDictionary.com • Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal :computerkeys:

 

Today's Word:

Borborygm (Noun)

 

Pronunciation: [bor-b�-'rig-�m]

 

Definition 1: The gurgling sounds made by the stomach after eating.

 

Usage 1: The plural is "borborygmi" and the adjective "borborygmic." Borborygmi form the gastromantic data base

 

two can play that game

ZAFTIG

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'Plutoed' chosen as '06 Word of the Year - Space News - MSNBC.com

 

"Plutoed" was chosen 2006's Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting Friday.

 

To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.

 

"Plutoed" won in a runoff against "climate canary," defined as "an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon."

 

Other words considered: murse (man's purse), flog (a fake blog that promotes products) and macaca (an American citizen treated as an alien).

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