Word: puff
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...instance, the Boston dialect is commonly thought to be in immediate danger of disappearing, but the traditional linguistic features associated with it have been replaced by new distinctive characteristics. A Bostonian might not say "cah" any more - for car - but they will say potato puff for tater tot. Sprinkles will be jimmies. And they'll use terms like "triple-decker" and "grinder," which don't really appear outside of the region. Vaux says he could probably identify where a person is from, by asking under ten questions regarding such idiosyncracies in language. He explains that one of the main reasons...
...wanted the students and the teaching fellows to know that they were part of something larger than themselves, not to puff them up with pride, but to inspire them to equal or better the contributions of those that had gone before them," Killen wrote in an e-mail message...
...Rocha sounds off on a wide range of topics. He ridicules New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani: "There's nothing more dangerous than a fascist with aspiration for higher office." He's also critical of Sean ("Puffy") Combs: "If Reagan were a rapper, he'd be in Puff Daddy's crew. It's the same set of politics. Get yours. F___ everyone else. Just get paid. Don't think about community...
...thought the device would add to the aura by going off in a puff of smoke," said Robert J. Sales, associate director of the MIT News Office...
...could always select a new candidate at the eleventh hour, and General Wiranto remarked cryptically on Monday that he would be prepared to enter politics if "the people" wanted him. For those outside the chamber, Wednesday may seem a little like waiting in St. Peter?s Square for that puff of smoke. Except that unlike the Catholic faithful, those outside Indonesia?s assembly may well reject the outcome...