This year, the Center for Plain Language is holding its first contest for best and worst language use.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

"Magnolia is wonderful. The first time I went I got a red velvet and a dark chocolate with mocha frosting and split it with my best friend.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

In 2008,he won his first two awards with his band,The Workers, for Best Blues Album of the Year and Best Blues Band of the Year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

You can bake the best loaf of bread you have ever tasted, and you can do it, if not your first try, then your second or third try.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"But having learned lessons from the first elections that there was widespread fraud, irregularities and fraudulence, we will try our best in close coordination with Afghan leadership and Afghan institutions and other international major partners to make this election as fair and free of fraudulence,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.20