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...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-up call, alas, refuse to die. Beyond the dread Addenda, Birnbaum says, 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. Dictionary lovers should find the contents illuminating, despite depressing evidence that the English...
...only a field of mathematics but also an all-purpose reckoning ("the calculus of political appeal"). To incentivize is to encourage. The inner child is the infantile wretch that lurks within the adult psyche. Outercourse is sex without penetration. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake-up call, alas, refuse...
Weston Eguchi '99, for example, received an unusual wake-up call...
Many feel Dole's defeats in both New Hampshire and Arizona were a wake-up call that helped revitalize his stagnant campaign...
Associate Librarian of Harvard College Lawrence E. Dowler said Womack's actions have served as a "wake-up call" and said the library has strengthened security as a result...