Agony aunt, ATM, blood & guts, colonography, domestic partner, garbology, misery index, smashmouth, and sub woofer, are now some words that make me a little more honored to have been born the year I was.
What a great use of the Internet by Merriam Webster: This website that lets you see what words were born the same year you were.
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When you are looking for a job, you submit an application or a resume. If you submit as resume, you might want to make sure that the most misspelled word in Colorado is correct... Because it might be the one thing that could make you lose out on the job...
Oxford Dictionaries added new terms to its list of 21st-century slang category yesterday, including "manspreading."
Manspreading, a noun, is "the practice whereby a man, especially one travelling on public transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats...
Add trigger words like "hole," "blow," or "boob" to the beginning or end of any word, and it sounds dirty. These 10 words definitely seem like they'd be dirty, but are actually not dirty by definition.