The new mom quips that her 7-month-old is so smart he's "speaking full sentences"
While updating my guidebooks for 2009, I found plenty of changes, starting with London's museums.
This was the summer of $4 a gallon gas - and its impact on Americans is reflected in our lexicon.
Election night can be as confusing as it is exciting. What's the difference between electoral votes and popular votes? What's a balance of power? Read through our glossary to learn more about these and other terms.
I have never in my life seen a grown man cry over receiving a dictionary. I have never in my life watched a child fumble with a pair of sunglasses because she didn't know what they were.
The Baghdad School for the Blind receives an unexpected gift after years of hardship and war.
A dictionary's cull of archaic terms has brought language mavens onto the ramparts
A federal judge on Monday ruled against a Web site operator who was seeking to publish an encyclopedia about the Harry Potter series of novels, blocking publication of "The Harry Potter Lexicon" after concluding that it would cause author J.K. Rowling "irreparable injury."
Dell is announcing Wednesday that it has become carbon neutral by turning out the lights in its offices, buying wind power and protecting endangered forests in Madagascar.
It's a battle worthy of Harry Potter himself.
Phil Black reports on why 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling is taking one of her most passionate fans to court.
J.K. Rowling said Monday that her efforts to halt a publisher's "Harry Potter" lexicon have been crushing her creativity
The acquisition of Britain's leading luxury car brands by an Indian company merely confirms the vitality a centuries-old Indian presence in British culture
From the time her daughter was very young, Briana Vartanian knew something was wrong.
New autism study
updated: Wed Apr 02 2008 10:30:00
New reports help doctors identify autism and do something to help. CNN's Kiran Chetry and Elizabeth Cohen have more.
Dear FSB: How does a small company break into the huge (and growing) U.S. Latino market? My firm makes educational toys and games, including Spanish-language versions, but I can't find a way to reach that audience on a very tiny marketing budget. - Gary Gatchel, Owner and President, Tah Dah Rockton, Ill.
Through the years, there have been many unforgettable and sometimes unfortunate hairstyles.
The burger giant declares war on the definition of 'McJob' as low-paid, dead-end employment. Its first target: the OED
A job that is low in skill, status and opportunities? It must be a McJob, according to British dictionaries and popular slang.
Fortune: Found in translationupdated: Wed Jun 21 2006 14:17:00
If you want to take the temperature of Japan's economic relations with China, forget recent heated exchanges over Japan's World War II legacy. Focus instead on something cool--really cool: the tiny...
Fortune: Found in translationupdated: Mon Jun 12 2006 10:55:00
(FORTUNE Magazine) - If you want to take the temperature of Japan's economic relations with China, forget recent heated exchanges over Japan's World War II legacy.
The jury in the sentencing trial of al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui completed four days of deliberations without reaching a verdict and will return to the courthouse Monday.
You've heard several people on our show, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others, admonish us not to use the term "refugee" when describing the New Orleans citizens who've had to flee their homes. Jackson and others, including President Bush, have said or implied that term is racially insensitive.
Farmers are campaigning to remove from dictionaries the term "couch potato" which they say makes the vegetable seem unhealthy and is bad for its image.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - This might come as something of a shock to the gaming world, but Shigeru Miyamoto - the man who created Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda - really doesn't feel like playing games these days.
The response from the "vocabularians" was so "ginormous" that the lexicographers let out a "whoot."
Remember Star Trek's universal translator, which instantly rendered Klingon into English? That was science fiction, but a New York City startup called Transclick is rolling out software that transl...
showbuzzupdated: Wed Jan 05 2005 14:10:00
As the tremendous extent of the damage caused by the Asian tsunamis becomes apparent, a number of performers are stepping up to help.
As television heavyweight "Seinfeld" returns to prime time this week, viewers are reminded of the impact sitcoms have on pop-culture psyche -- and their contributions to our vocabulary.
Is your Wi-Fi's WEP turned on? What's the difference between bluejacking and bluesnarfing? Do you know your SSID? Get a handle on the details behind the acronyms and jargon that is wireless technology with this Wi-Fi glossary.
The Pentagon's release of memos Tuesday will show that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld never approved a controversial interrogation technique called "water boarding," according to a source who Monday had told CNN the opposite.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - If dictionaries were rewritten every year, the latest definition of the word "boffo" might be "small-cap stock performance, circa 2003."
Money Magazine: Money Talksupdated: Wed Oct 01 2003 00:01:00
Once a decade, Merriam-Webster rewrites its best-selling collegiate dictionary, adding new words, new definitions of old words and specialized words that have become part of everyday life. These da...
Fortune: to B or not to bupdated: Mon Sep 01 2003 00:01:00
like many people, I don't use capital letters when I type e-mail. but when I got a new computer a few months ago, it had Microsoft software that automatically capitalizes the first letters of some ...
In a darkened room on the 18th floor of a downtown San Francisco high-rise, Wilson Cheng scans his e-mail. "Cheapest Viagra Guaranteed." "Affordable Mortgages NOW!!!" "Toilet Cams JUQYZJIV." He get...
Money Magazine: Leasing luxuryupdated: Wed Jun 19 2002 13:18:00
Alan Briker, a 57-year-old internist in Westwood, N.J., may give his patients all the attention in the world, but when it comes to his cars, he's got AADD, automotive attention deficit disorder. That's why he loves leasing.
Imagine FORTUNE's surprise when it recently received a sternly worded letter from the estimable law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges. The problem? As the letter put it, "FORTUNE Magaz...
Hey, remember the Decoder Circuitry Act of 1993? No? Well, thanks to this little-known law you can follow Friends while on the treadmill or track CNBC in a busy office. The act mandated that all TV...
One night a few summers ago I checked into a motel in central Montana, pulled back the sheets on the bed and was horrified to find a colony of ticklike bugs inhabiting the underside of the bedsprea...
Fortune: Mos-cow or Mos-coe?updated: Mon Nov 09 1998 00:01:00
Watching the national drama unfold in Russia, one question burns in TV viewers' minds: Why do Moscow correspondents say Mos-coe (as in "Roscoe") and not Mos-cow, as most Americans pronounce it? Nei...
One regrets the recurrent temptation, thus far irresistible around our house, to argue with E.D. Hirsch Jr., professor of English at the University of Virginia. His basic proposition is sound. One ...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Jan 11 1993 00:01:00
PEN-BASED WIZARD Many overworked execs have been awaiting a hand-held gizmo that's part computer and part secretary. Apple Computer's John Sculley put forward the idea of a personal digital assista...
Brace yourself. You are about to read an item with a point of view believed never to have been elaborated in print before. Scary, eh? And yet, clearly, the time has come for some argumentative char...
If there's one thing the economy is producing lots of lately, it's bad news. Factory employment has dropped in nearly every month this year, pushing the total of manufacturing jobs down by 136,000 ...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up deconstructs a sacred text: the latest fund- raising letter to alums of Harvard and Radcliffe, or is it Radcliffe and Harvard? Dear Kindly: What's all this then about...
''Mega biblion, mega kakon'' (''A big book is a great evil''), said Callimachus, the Greek poet cherished among pedants as the champion of brevity. But what would the Hellenic worthy say about the ...
It is again time to argue with E. D. Hirsch Jr., professor of English at the University of Virginia. You will possibly recall him as the author of a readable 1987 best-seller about ''cultural liter...
Fortune: Devil's dictionaryupdated: Mon May 23 1988 00:01:00
Anyone who thinks a Quotron machine is what Larry Speakes used to make up quotes will have trouble surviving the blizzard of buzzwords blowing around the congressional probe of Drexel Burnham Lambe...
Poll ten economists on an economic question and you'll get at least ten opinions: That's conventional wisdom. It is also wrong. Economists are not the fractious bunch of equivocators that many peop...
For ready reference during this tour of foreign markets, we offer a glossary:
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up argues the often overlooked case for life indoors. Dear Kindly: Overlooked? Surely you jest. Not so. You cannot name one single official adviser currently proffering ...
STUCK WITH dusty old computer programs that are incompatible with the latest hardware? Want to peddle military software to the Army, but your package doesn't meet the Defense Department's new progr...
First there were the twins CAD and CAM, computer-aided design and computer- aided manufacturing, software systems linked with computer work stations to speed the conception and production of all so...
Fortune: Assimilation Inc.updated: Mon Nov 11 1985 00:01:00
Two former Apple Computer marketing managers started Assimilation last year. Based in Los Gatos, California, the private company sells 18 products that make Apple's Macintosh computer more useful -...
Fortune: Lexicon Corp.updated: Mon Sep 02 1985 00:01:00
July was a hectic month for Lexicon, a small manufacturer of electronic terminals and modems that link computers over phone lines. In less than two weeks the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, company was s...
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