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What's New?I've updated the Politics page to reflect the results of the April 24, 2012 primary. See who's running in November and check out their websites (where available). This song has been getting some airplay on my favorite radio station, and I expect it will be featured in the summer rotation. Here's the Song of the Day for May. May means it's time for the annual Fine Arts Fiesta in Wilkes-Barre. Let's hope for good weather! |
Word of the YearA panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2011 is occupy, a noun, verb and combining form that powered a protest movement here in the US and around the world. Officers from the American Dialect Society admit that the word occupy is old, but they say that it took on another life in 2011 and moved in new and unexpected directions. The American Dialect Society chose the Word of the Year on January 6, 2012, at its meeting in Portland, Oregon. Other nominees for WOTY include the Occupy-related 99 percenters, which refers to those of us who are not among the one percent of top earners, and humblebrag, defined as an expression of false humility, especially by celebrities on Twitter. You can read the entire news release here. |
