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Receive tweets about fresh editorial content on the newly redesigned Merriam-Webster.com, with features like little john itt itt industires itt in fort worth circle k and cousin itt itt veam connectors itt telephone itt general controls hydramotor itt aquios itt fhs fuel fitting cousin itt sound clip itt camp pendleton price list itt switches business deltatech controls inc itt easyuse how much itt nettwork cannon itt jobs in itt itt night vision scope itt library itt communications bunker itt technical institute rancho cordova itt 90484 itt industry membrane din itt cannon itt semiconductors itt continental itt visual information systems wells itt internet itt goulds pumps closing ashland itt stephanie griffiths australia vistoria kadena itt online itt technical school itt madison wi itt tech library itt blackburn flyt motor itt nas oceana itt itt buyout edo can itt credits be transferred itt marlow pump mfll itt pmrf itt safety plan itt imc acquisition itt general solenoid oil valve itt souriau itt technical institute pa itt heat exchanger itt switch afghanistan itt contractors logistics coodinator itt little creek amphib base itt cannon cables itt tech school of criminal justice itt avionics lawson itt tch itt tech sucks itt tech in birmingham itt g4s security jobs camp bondsteel cas itt itt tech computer drafting majors itt night vision goggles itt educational services itt tech louisville itt jennings itt iraq itt and atlanta itt bell gossett September 2010Summer Top TwentyIt was a long, hot summer and one very rich in vocabulary! The most looked-up word all summer was a word that is not in the dictionary: refudiate, the malaprop used by former Gov. Sarah Palin on television and Twitter. The word caused much comment and provoked much research putting the word repudiate in the Summer Top Twenty as well. Unsurprisingly, the Gulf oil spill and blockbuster films also provided some of the summer's biggest lookups. 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Many words that are among the most looked-up on a daily basis are abstract terms with classical roots (think integrity or ubiquitous). Conundrum would seem to fit right in with them. But does it? Something about the word is unsettling enough for people to be constantly looking it up and perhaps a bit mysterious.Notable and Quotable: D.H. LawrenceD.H. Lawrence was born September 11, 1885. Long troubled by ill health, the poet, critic, and novelist (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers) died at 44. Samples of his writing appear at some five dozen entries in the Unbridged, the more colorful of them included here. (When was the last time you encountered "everywhere" used as a noun?). Interested in seeing all the examples of a particular writer? Select the Collegiate or the Unabridged as your reference, click on Advanced Search, type in the surname of the writer in the Author Quoted box, and click on Search. From the Mail ServerThis month, editors heard from someone zealous about the need to add a new word to the lexicon, from another person looking for the rich story behind the word cheapskate, and from a set of correspondents eager to understand the rule that distinguishes vowels from consonants. Happy Birthday 1666The Great Fire of London began raging on September 2, 1666. By the time the fire ended three days later, St. Paul's Cathedral, more than 13,000 houses, and dozens of churches had been destroyed. A new London (with less wood) arose from the ashes. The year of the Great Fire also witnessed the first print appearance of 65 words in English that appear in the Collegiate Dictionary. We can see the expanding worlds of science and discovery reflected in these words from fields such as astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Interested in seeing all 65 words that first appeared in print in 1666? Choose the Collegiate as your reference source and select Date from the pull-down menu. 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Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate." This sent refudiate to the top of the Top Twenty for the summer.Why the buzz? For starters, refudiate is not (yet) in the dictionary. Then there was the controversy over subsequent tweets from Gov. Palin, first changing refudiate to repudiate, and then defending her coinage, invoking Shakespeare: "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" Language watchers debated whether refudiate was a portmanteau or a malapropism. The blend is easy to figure out (refute or refuse + repudiate). But what's the story on malapropism? Just Foolin' AroundChristopher Nolan's hit movie Inception propelled the word inception to #2 on the Summer Top Twenty. The word inception which stresses the notion of commencing or beginning without any implication about cause has an ancestor in capere, Latin for to take. Taking a minute to fool around with the Latin verb capere turns up more than three dozen other English words with capere in their background. Language LinksInterest in refudiate reminds us of the eggcorn. An eggcorn is a sort of "nonce folk etymology" coinage a word coined through a logical reshaping of an unfamiliar word. For example, someone who has never seen the word acorn in print might well guess the word is eggcorn from its pronunciation. Eggcorns, unlike malapropisms, make sense. But unlike words coined through folk etymology, eggcorns are not recognized as "real" words. 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