Red, blog, and blue

WHAT WORDS WERE we using in 2004? Merriam-Webster knows: Its list of the year's Top 10 terms is not a committee's inventive effort but a dispassionate tally of lookups in its online dictionaries and thesaurus ( m-w.com ). And though blog ranks No. 1, politics and war are predictably dominant: I ncumbent, electoral, insurgent, partisan, and sovereignty are all on ... (Full article: 768 words)

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