Word: addenda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Platitudes about regaining the fans' support notwithstanding, professional basketball is putting out an inferior product, riddled with ugly structural crises and unwanted addenda to Dr. Naismith's game...
Unlike the Bob Dylans and Eric Claptons of the industry who market "unplugged" re-recordings of obsolete songs, Guthrie updates his editorial banter perennially. Songs which originally lampooned and criticized the horror and stupidity of the Vietnam War have accumulated, over the years, addenda about Watergate, the Carter Administration, global warming, NAFTA, politically correct children's books, the brainless television industry and the astonishing post-mortem Beatles reunion, as well as any number of other current events...
...browser wants to cry havoc. says TIME's Jesse Birnbaum. Still, dictionaries must face factoids. So, with due sensitivity, the handsome new Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary (2,230 pages; $50) quarantines about 1,000 examples of jargon, fad words and lamentable journalese and corrals them into a separate "Addenda Section." The Addenda provides a useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake...
...Addenda provides a useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness...
Beyond the dread Addenda, the dictionary is sound and scholarly, comprising more than 315,000 entries (1,500 of them updated), with etymologies aplenty, regional variations and usage guides. A selection of well-known names, places and events is even catalogued handily in the main text. Dictionary lovers should find the contents illuminating, despite depressing evidence that the English language is getting a severe dumbing down. That term, oddly enough, is not to be found in these pages. --By Jesse Birnbaum