The Oxford Junior Dictionary is dropping lots of words to make room for new jargon.Normally I'm all for adjusting the collection of words to reflect common language, but this strikes me as a bad move. Having 'BlackBerry(tm)' but not having 'blackberry' is particularly frustrating. Clearly the trademark was named after a fruit. Any work defining the ( Read more... )

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Time to roll up my sleeves and figure out how to roll back my odometer. I knew growing older meant losing body functions and getting wrinkly, but I'm beginning to realize how the whole thing will go down for me ( Read more... )