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| Man takes double hit from wife
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:30:33 GMT Reuters - A New Zealand man is recovering from injuries after being run over by his wife -- twice, local media reported on Friday. |
| Paying to pick seats loathsome, many passengers say
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:31:14 GMT Reuters - Paying for extras has become routine for airline passengers but it doesn't mean they like it, with a poll showing more than half all travelers hate having to fork out to choose their seat. |
| Want to live like a cowboy? Try Wyoming
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:31:59 GMT Reuters - Whether you want to live like a rock star or a cowboy, or become an urban gardener or just opt for the simple life, there is a town in America to suit everyone's taste. |
| Nurses' union: Care does not include sex
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| The price you pay for being romantic...
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:23:32 GMT Reuters - A German woman, fearful that a burglar was trying to break into her second storey apartment, called police after she heard someone climbing up to her balcony shortly after midnight, police said Thursday. |
| Japan's spouse hunters hone skills at marriage school
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:17:37 GMT Reuters - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims to turn them into marriage material. |
| Old sea dog sets tongues wagging at Crufts
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| New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:43 GMT Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported. |
| Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying
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| "Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo
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| Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU
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| Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse
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| Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:11 GMT Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday. |
| Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:27 GMT Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds. |
| U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:53 GMT Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found. |
| Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:28:13 GMT Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral. |
| Aussie underwear has gone bananas
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:11:58 GMT Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas. |
| Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza
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| Pilot with fake licence arrested at airport
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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:53:13 GMT Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday. |
| London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey
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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:53 GMT Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 13, 2010 is:
acronym • \AK-ruh-nim\ • noun
: a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of each or most of the parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation formed from initial letters
Example sentence:
The new committee spent a fair amount of time choosing a name that would lend itself to an appealing acronym.
Did you know?
"Acronym" was created by combining "acr-" ("beginning") with "-onym," ("name" or "word"). You may recognize "-onym" in other familiar English words such as "pseudonym" and "synonym." English speakers borrowed "-onym" directly from the Greek (it derives from "onyma," the Greek word for "name"). "Acr-" is also from Greek, but it made a side trip through Middle French on its way to English. When "acronym" first entered English, some usage commentators decreed that it should refer to combinations of initial letters that were pronounced as if they were whole words (such as "radar" or "scuba"), differentiated from an "initialism," which is spoken by pronouncing the component letters (as "FBI" and "CEO"). These days, however, that distinction is largely lost, and "acronym" is a common label for both types of abbreviation.