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...course, the tensions over this subway series are high in a city packed with eight million New Yorkers, commonly known for their fervent devotion to area sports teams. New York is a city of fans, and the word fan is short for fanatic, which, according to Webster Dictionary, means, "marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion." New York fans are fanatic about either the Mets or the Yankees--teams that inherently polarize their fans. It's possible the fans will be more exciting to watch than the games. And who could ask for a better match-up than...
Friends of Mel Carnahan, the story today goes, say the governor would have wanted the debate to go on, and so it will. George W. Bush canceled a 9:30 a.m. appearance at nearby Webster University, but after discussions between the campaigns and the Commission on Presidential Debates, the word was that everything else would proceed as scheduled...
They can breathe easier now. In contrast to the more conservative gatekeepers at Merriam-Webster and The Oxford English Dictionary, the editors at American Heritage practice a linguistic open-door policy. Give us your "shock jocks," your "scuzzbuckets," they say. Give us your "digerati" yearning to "multitask." "People look at the dictionary as a normalizing thing," says executive editor Joseph Pickett. "It helps to give the word codified status." Not all words, thankfully. Take "stalkerazzi," which gained currency after Lady Diana's death. The term was considered for the dictionary but couldn't produce convincing credentials. Maybe it lost...
...They are in fact supernormal. And so, even after starting in a 17-0 hole, these Rams should be able to pass the Chargers sometime early in the second quarter, throw a few more touchdowns on the board in the third, and take the fourth off and let the Webster Groves High team finish the game...
Matz cites Webster's Dictionary's definition of a novel as "an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex," saying that the novel is much more than a collection of words...