Month: October 2009
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Verb "Googled" Not in Google's Spellchecker
It has been several years since the verb “to google” was added to the English dictionary. According to Wikipedia, It was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006, and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006. However, Gmail’s own spellchecker shows the word “googled” as a…
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Air Travails 1: Eccentricities of Air Tickets
Past one week has been kind of a roller coaster ride for me. It started with a travel plan and ended with no travel at all, with a number of lessons learned along the way. News of a family member’s death in India came on last Friday night. Within minutes I was online looking for…