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w00t it's the word of the year!

w00t, an interjection often used in online gaming, has been selected as Word of the Year by Merriam-Webster, a publisher of dictionaries and reference books, though it is yet to find acceptance in......

Indian girl wins spelling bee with 'cymotrichous'

Sukanya Roy adds another chapter to the Indian American success story at the National Spelling Bee. Suman Guha Mozumder reports\\nFor the fourth consecutive year, an Indian American was crowned the......

Indian American girl wins Spelling Bee

In her fourth appearance at the annual spelling marathon, a supremely-confident Kavya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, breezed through to win the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee competition,......

US: Indian-American kid wins national spelling bee

Sameer Mishra, 13, of West Lafayette, Indiana, won the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee, correctly spelling 'guerdon,' which means something one has earned or gained, a reward. With his win,......

Bollywood makes it to another dictionary

India's top actors may find the description of the Hindi film industry as Bollywood derogatoryand humiliatingbut the word has just been added to another leading dictionary.After Oxford, it's......

Mobile-blogging is poised to explode

When Merriam-Webster compiled a list of the most searched words of 2004, the word 'blog' (short for weblog) topped the charts.However, blogging's younger sibling, the mobile-blog, is rapidly......

Of funts, fakeaways, and Ninja loans

The turmoil in the world economy has done what economists and experts could not do for years -- pushing into the day-to-day life a healthy dose of financial jargon, a lot of which has even become......

How to provide for parents, kids and still save

Naval architect Jayanta Roy, 44, lives with his family in their Kolkata home. There's wife Rupa, 39, son Deepro, 10, and parents, Kalyan Kumar, 65, and Kana, 65. In October 2007, Kalyan had to be......

Blogging: An insider's view

Severe withdrawal symptoms. I haven't blogged for several -- oh wait, still Friday is it? -- well, several hours then. No new comments on the Parveen Babi tribute I posted either. (Refresh refresh.......

Is India heading for bankruptcy?

Back in the 1930s, a fight broke out between the two Iyengar sects. It was about the control over the rich, main Kanjeevaram temple. The shape of the tilak on the temple elephant became the proxy......

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Q. Why they call the moon a
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Q. Namaste ji- One side love yeh kya hota hi ..how to fulfill your one side love ?
Wenz: A. In many parts of Europe it was traditional to supply a newly married couple with enough mead for a month, ensuring happiness and fertility. Mead is...... more

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Q. when do you keep saying..Helllo hello...hello?
Harpreet: A. one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such. The beloved may or may not be aware of the admirer's deep and strong...... more

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Q. What is the Difference between -Fabrication and imagination and invention and tradition and allegory and creation and delusion ........... ????????
Anantharaman: A. Hello may be derived from hullo, which the American Merriam-Webster dictionary describes as a "chiefly British variant of hello,"and...... more

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Q. why it is called google ?
Ulta Chashma: A. Invention involves two distinct ideas. Conceptually, it is the act of coming up with an original thought or idea, but concretely an invention is...... more

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Revengeance

Written by FHM India Though the Metal Gear series was launched in 1987, their first commercially successful edition was Metal Gear Solid.... ...

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Franklin Unveils Gran Maestro Spanish-English Language Master Dictionary

A Speaking Handheld Library of Language Learning Burlington, NJ (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Franklin Electronic Publishers today announced its most... ...

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Fighting Western intellectual bias

The field of management studies has its own hagiology and demonology. Management coinages keep shuttling between the two. What is enthroned today... ...

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Tap a word three times and it's yours

Philtrum. Salubriousness. Thaumaturge. These are three of my favourite words, but they’re not common ones. So you may be reaching for a... ...

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New 2014 Ford Mustangs Available at Mike Castrucci of Alexandria

/PRNewswire-iReach/ -- There are a couple of definitions for the word mustang as defined by Merriam-Webster. The first one is, "a small hard... ...

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