I just have to know who comes up with this stuff! It’s bad enough we have a bazillion texting abbreviations now we have dozens of new net words! Stop IT! I can’t memorize this many LOL
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Do you use a sock puppet to secretly keep track of your frenemies?
Plan to spend your staycation watching vlogs and webisodes? Or perhaps you plan to signal a flash mob for a quick bite of shawarma.
If you’re not entirely certain what all that means, turn to the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, which has added about 100 new words that largely reflect changing trends in American society.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest. David McKenzie, 55, of Federal Way, Wash., won the grand prize in San Jose State University’s annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this:
LONDON (AP) — It’s a spelling mantra that generations of schoolchildren have learned – “i before e, except after c.”




