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“If you’re just waking up, CNN has by far the best coverage.”

2 months ago
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“How tall are you?”
“4’11.”
“So, have you stopped growing?”

Letterman to Gabby Douglas

I love you, David, but good grief.

- #facepalm
- #worst interview of 2012
10 months ago
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How does a word get into the venerable Oxford English Dictionary? Wide, long use is key. New-words editor Fiona McPherson enlists a small army of readers to comb through books, magazines, newspapers, and various online sources. Fresh words or meanings […] are added to a database; their usages are tracked for up to ten years. If “cankle,” for instance, pops up often enough, it may be one of the 4,000 words—out of 6,000 considered—that make the cut each year. Then it will be there to stay. “The OED is unique,” says McPherson, “in that we never remove a word once it has been included.”