The hotel clerk took pity on me, pointing out that in Hindi, the word for tomorrow is the same as the word for yesterday.
The word for furniture in Japanese is kagu, the word for stock market, kabu.
Hundreds of parents waited for hours in the rain for word of their children.
If you look it up in the dictionary, one definition for the word has it as a synonym for an underhand plot or conspiracy.
But even as the adventures of a bespectacled boy wizard have proven that the world still has an appetite for the written word, one wonders if Hodgman still sees a place for the publishing world he abandoned a decade or so ago to great success.
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And for the record, I'm using the word gay interchangeably with homosexual for the sake of conversation, because it really is a shame for perfectly good word pertaining to happiness to get associated it with the cultural taboo.
The editors of the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook announced that after careful consideration, they had changed the usage rules for the word "hopefully".
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Conductor Paul Hillier handles this vocal realm almost like a painter, looking for just the right musical color for every word, and just the right vocal density for every chord.
Ellis scored England's fourth try after the break and although Italy cut the gap through Mirco Bergamasco, Mark Cueto had the final word for the hosts.
But the IOC sued the organisers for using the word "Olympics" in the title, and forced the name change.
When it spots a term that falls into that subset, like "Amoxicillin, " Hakia can substitute the medicine's name for the word "drug" in the result.
The denizens of the company headquarters breezily refer to it as the Googleplex, that being the word for the unimaginably large number defined as a one followed by a googol of zeros.
Michael Tilson Thomas, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, adopted the word for a pair of festivals that he mounted in 1996 and 2000.
Paget says Belu -- derived from the word blue and the Italian word for beautiful, "bella" -- takes a three-pronged approach to its clean water projects, by not only providing a clean water source for drinking but water for washing hands and education about the importance of hygiene.
This is a rolling scrubland, and in fact, the word Puuc comes from the Maya word for hill.
" The French word for dressing table, "toilette, " he added, "actually came from the word 'toile, ' which means cloth.
For many business owners, survival has been the operative word for the past five years.
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Astronomers today gave Pluto the heave ho, voting in an official definition for the word planet that leaves Pluto out.
Roman legionnaires were paid in salt (hence the word "salary, " from the Latin word for it).
The video is understood to show Mr Landeros stencilling an image of a bullfighter, a bull and the word 'conquista' - the Spanish word for conquest - on Picasso's 1932 work Woman in a Red Armchair.
But the survey did show that recruiters expect to use the platform more in the future, especially for getting the word out about openings.
Then the leasing company that is the largest customer for the Dreamliner gave word that structural changes to where the plane's wings attach to the fuselage would further delay the 787's first flight by three to six months.
Going rogue as Mr. Lawsky has done isn't always for the best, and maybe "rogue" isn't the right word for it.
But I think this market has the potential to boom a decade or two from now as nostalgia sets in for the printed word.
He waited by the nearby Toyota dealership for word from his wife, who had enrolled at the school two months ago for vocational nursing training.
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There is an emerging party of religious-nationalist far-rightists under the acronym LAOS (the Greek word for people), which has tried to gain respectability by accepting the need for tough measures, but still stands to gain from the ferment.
Bennett was presented with the Listening Books Award for spoken word at the Hay Festival on Saturday night by James Naughtie.
The word sommelier (pronounced some-el-YAY) is derived from the Vulgar Latin word for "beast of burden, " which may seem at odds with the image of a well-dressed man (or woman) proffering a wine list to a table of guests.
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The evidence, and Lake's reputation for following the letter of the law to the word, doesn't bode especially well for Lay.
Who knew that bazodee meant "confused" in the Caribbean or that South Asians use the word biodata for "rsum"?
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