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BBC World News
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Russia 'wants Arab role in Syria'
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov calls for a solution to the Syria crisis based on Arab League initiatives, after seeing leaders in Damascus.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:50:18 GMT
Maldives leader quits amid unrest
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigns after weeks of demonstrations and a mutiny by some police officers.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:36:07 GMT
Chinese workers released in Sudan
A group of Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in Sudan last month has been freed and flown to Kenya, officials from both countries say.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:51:20 GMT
Glencore-Xstrata in $90bn merger
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata announces a $90bn merger with Glencore, the world's largest commodity trader.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:44:39 GMT
Euro 'could survive Greece exit'
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes piles pressure on Greece to agree tough reforms, saying a euro exit would be "no man overboard".
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:53:06 GMT
Obama to give back campaign funds
US President Barack Obama's election campaign is to return some $200,000 of funding linked to the family of a Mexican fugitive.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:33:05 GMT
Charity quits after Mali attacks
Medical charity Doctors of the World pulls out of northern Mali following a recent outbreak of fighting by Tuareg rebels - some of whom used to fight for Col Gaddafi in Libya.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:45:18 GMT
Double-Tongued
Word Wrester Dictionary
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Hey, Girl, Words of the Year
I prepared these slides to entertain the crowds at the American Dialect Society’s 2011 Words of the Year vote. (See Ben Zimmer’s recap and video at Visual Thesaurus.) They got a few titters, so you might enjoy them, too. I left out the comma after “hey” in accordance with the style of the image macro [...]
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:19:55 +0000
My Eighth Annual New York Times Words of the Year List
My eighth annual New York Times words-of-the-year list is live. The words I included are just a fraction of the hundreds of terms I considered. I had to leave out many worthy candidates, but you’ll no doubt see them come up in the 2011 “word of the year” vote held by the American Dialect Society [...]
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:23:34 +0000
I Need You For The Radio Show
I want you to donate to the nonprofit that produces the radio show I co-host and co-produce. It’s 9 p.m. here on the West Coast. I’m just back from an educational forum featuring Michelle Rhee, who used to run the Washington D.C. schools. A lot of the talk was about students, and some of what [...]
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:37:22 +0000
The Disappearance of Lemolade
At four years and eight months, my son Guthrie is about 44 pounds and 44 inches of a limitless capacity for making us laugh. Dinner time is a comedy/variety hour. It may include jokes, laps around the table, a puppet show from underneath the tablecloth, made up songs about bodily functions, putting new words to [...]
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:46:59 +0000
The Pronunciation of American Humorists
A delightful find in a book from 1874 (On Early English Pronunciation, Asher & Co., London, for the Philological Society): a long list pronunciations used by American humorists to represent the speech of the common American. There are pages and pages of it. Many of them are new to me, which suggests that they are [...]
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:38:00 +0000
Research Buzz
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Flickr - Ten Last Posts
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You heard of Johnny Mountain.. Now It's Jose Hills give you the weather.. Clouds coming in over East Ventura..

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