Word: chadli
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Observations, he had plenty of. The rubber strips that part for punched chads grew old and stiff over age, he told Gore questioner Stephen Zack. Some styluses were particularly apt to leave chad behind. Some people voted with the card on top of the machine, and only left dimples. Sometimes the chad basin filled up so high that punching through was futile. And Brace never missed an opportunity to tack a Gore talking point at the end of observations. The scanner misses votes, so all the votes in Maimi-Dade must be counted by hand, "the only way of absolutely...
Thousands of noisy Bush and Gore partisans jammed the side walks surrounding the marble-columned courthouse, waving signs that read "Kiss My Chad," "Give Up, You Lost," "We've Been Bushwhacked," "Gore Makes Nixon Look Good." Helmeted police lined the sidewalk, ready to intervene if necessary. But the crowd was in high spirits, ready to party. A man in an Uncle Sam costume paced the sidewalk. A woman reached her hands to the sky, loudly praising God for the countless blessings of democracy. One man paraded with a sign saying, "From Monica to Chads. Enough is Enough." All that...
Other bad things: the legitimacy of U.S. think-tankers monitoring elections overseas will be diminished. "Chad" jokes will proliferate far beyond humor boundaries. And the 2004 election won't be nearly as exciting...
...Etymological debate is raging even as you read. Chad was the most looked-up word on merriam-webster.com last Friday. One possible derivation is from chat--small, white pieces of rock produced in lead mining. But what rock and paper have to do with each other (particularly without scissors) is unclear. Another theory, advanced by the New Hacker's Dictionary, is that chad stems from the "Chadless" paper punch, thought to be named after its inventor, that keeps the little pieces off the floor--ergo the pieces must be chad. "There is a legend that the word was originally acronymic...
...Stop whining. The American Heritage Dictionary editors nearly deleted chad from the latest edition because they felt it was obsolete. And take pity on the poor foreign-news outlets as they try to translate "pregnant chad." Parlo.com a languages website, offered suggestions: in Cantonese, dye toad tsee (big stomach paper); in German, schwanger Stanzabfall (pregnant punch waste); and in Russian, beremennaya confette (pregnant confetti...