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| Hurricane Norbert tears into Mexico, weakens Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:33:24 EDT Read full story for latest details. |
| U.S. takes North Korea off terror list Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:51:06 EDT The U.S. says North Korea has agreed to every nuclear inspection demand the Bush administration has sought, so the North is being dropped from a U.S. terrorism blacklist. |
| Fury as Mugabe party gets key ministries Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:36:35 EDT Robert Mugabe's political rivals Saturday accused the Zimbabwean president of "ambush" in allocating key ministries to his own party in defiance of a power-sharing agreement aimed at ending political turmoil in the country. |
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| Police: Austria's Haider dies in car accident Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:01:54 EDT Far-right Austrian politician Joerg Haider has died in a car accident, Austrian police said Saturday. |
| Earthquake kills 12 in Chechnya Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:05:16 EDT At least 12 people were killed Saturday in an earthquake in Russia's Chechnya region, Russian news agencies reported. |
| Bomb carnage at Pakistan tribal gathering Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:48:50 EDT A suicide bomber targeted a tribal gathering in north-west Pakistan Friday evening, Pakistani authorities have said, killing 15 people and injuring more than two dozen. |
| Cross-Kashmir train launched amid curfew Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:32:39 EDT Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first intra-Kashmir train Saturday, even as police and paramilitary enforced an undeclared curfew in parts of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. |
| U.S. says it would support talks with Taliban Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:15:30 EDT U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States would be prepared to reconcile with the Taliban if the Afghan government pursued talks to end the seven-year conflict in that country. |
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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.