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| Explosions kill 16 Iraqi civilians Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:43:07 EDT A car bomb exploded Friday in an outdoor market in southern Baghdad, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 22, an Interior Ministry official said. |
| France to resume arms sales to Iraq Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:57:12 EDT Read full story for latest details. |
| Cyprus peace process accelerates Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:08:51 EDT Read full story for latest details. |
| U.N.: Smugglers force 100 overboard Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:55:20 EDT One hundred people are missing in the Gulf of Aden after smugglers forced them overboard off the coast of Yemen, a U.N. spokesman said Friday. |
| Bomb kills senior Iraqi lawmaker Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:53:39 EDT A roadside bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital has killed a senior member of the Sadr Movement's influential parliamentary bloc, a party official told CNN Thursday. |
| Syria releases American journalsists Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:14:38 EDT Syrian officials on Thursday summoned a senior U.S. diplomat, informing her that two Americans have been arrested for illegally entering Syria with the help of a smuggler, a Syrian foreign ministry statement said Thursday. |
| U.S. denies Iran report of plane forced down Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:01:59 EDT U.S. military officials disputed Iranian media reports on Tuesday that Iranian fighter jets intercepted a U.S. military plane after it violated Iranian airspace. |
| Analysis: Success of 'surge' far from clear Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:28:49 EDT When it comes to getting a political message -- or perception -- across to voters, the rule is usually to keep that message simple, and say it often. |
| Immunity for U.S. troops a barrier in Iraq talks Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:37:39 EDT The United States' insistence that its troops and contractors remain immune from Iraqi law is a key obstacle to reaching a status of forces agreement, the Iraqi foreign minister said Tuesday. |
| Female fighters: Enough male dominance Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:33:46 EDT The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It's a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 13, 2008 is:
koine • \koy-NAY\ • noun
1 : the Greek language commonly spoken and written in eastern Mediterranean countries in the Hellenistic and Roman periods *2 : a dialect or language of a region that has become the common or standard language of a larger area
Example sentence:
Koines inevitably developed in the early British colonies as different dialects converged.
Did you know?
Koine, which means "common" or "shared" in Greek, was the language spoken in the eastern Mediterranean countries from the 4th century B.C. until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (mid-6th century A.D.). In linguistics, the word "koine" is applied to a language developed from contact between dialects of the same language over a large region. Basically, a koine adopts those grammatical and lexical elements from the dialects of the region that are easily recognized by most area speakers and dispenses with those that are not.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.