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What's New?Harry Potter grows up to be a ghost hunter in The Woman in Black. Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes on a Sunday afternoon in February. Nothing like The Doors to liven up your Valentine's Day. Go for a moonlight drive and check out the Song of the Day. Why not let the heat from a steam locomotive warm you up this winter? Pay a visit to Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton. |
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. |
