Every year, Merriam-Webster opens its online ballot box for people to cast their word-of-the-year votes. Last year’s winner was “truthiness,” this year, it’s “w00t!,” which won handily, giving it a place in Merriam-Webster’s online Open Dictionary. Time will tell if it’ll make its way into the regular Merriam-Webster dictionary which adds new words based on [read more]
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Musky in 2017, a Poem
November 28, 2007 – 5:35 pm
The below piece is the result of an assignment asking writers to interview a classmate and then write an essay about meeting that person ten years from today. This piece arrived in the form of a poem. What’s extraordinary about the work is that it comes out of our EN 1080 class, where I prepare [read more]