2005: "Integrity", "Inept" and "Tsunami"
First of all, let me apologize for yesterday's rambling crackhead entry. I was seriously tired and mostly incoherent but hey... it's fun.
Here's an interesting story: Merriam-Webster is reporting the top words searched for on their online site for 2005, and it's a funny combination of words, at least the "integrity" and "inept" part.
The most searched-on word for 2005 was the word "integrity" with 200,000 hits. Which is encouraging; at least now America can actually define the frekkin word.
The unfortunately-named Ralph Whitehead, a journalism professor or e-x-p-e-r-t, hypothesizes that perhaps (i love that word, "perhaps") integrity has become so scarce in our society that its definition has become unfamiliar.
An exerpt from CNN's story:
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Here's an interesting story: Merriam-Webster is reporting the top words searched for on their online site for 2005, and it's a funny combination of words, at least the "integrity" and "inept" part.
The most searched-on word for 2005 was the word "integrity" with 200,000 hits. Which is encouraging; at least now America can actually define the frekkin word.
The unfortunately-named Ralph Whitehead, a journalism professor or e-x-p-e-r-t, hypothesizes that perhaps (i love that word, "perhaps") integrity has become so scarce in our society that its definition has become unfamiliar.
An exerpt from CNN's story:
Immediately after Simon Cowell, the acid-tongued host of the popular television show "American Idol," called one aspiring singer "insipid," Merriam-Webster noticed a dramatic spike in the number of lookups for the word, which the dictionary defines as "lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate or challenge: dull, flat."
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