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Kansas Wins the Big 12 and Likely a No. 1 Seed - New York Times
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:20:20 GMT+00:00
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Huskies Rally to Claim Pac-10 Title - New York Times
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:03:46 GMT+00:00
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San Diego State beats UNLV for Mountain West crown - msnbc.com
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:29:39 GMT+00:00
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Host and houseguest to do battle on Sunday at CA Championship - PGA Tour
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:50:44 GMT+00:00
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His Browns career at an end, there will be NFL options for Brady Quinn: Tony ... - Plain Dealer
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:29:31 GMT+00:00
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German TV, promoter lead way for a new era in drug testing for boxing - New York Daily News
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:16:36 GMT+00:00
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Zardana upsets Rachel Alexandra in New Orleans - CBSSports.com
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:38:10 GMT+00:00
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Ohio State beats Illinois 88-81 in double OT - Chicago Tribune
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:19:39 GMT+00:00
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Georgia Tech beats NC State 57-54 in ACC semifinal - The Associated Press
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:52:26 GMT+00:00
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Bulls G Kirk Hinrich suspended 1 game; Suns coach Alvin Gentry fined $25000 - The Canadian Press
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:30:27 GMT+00:00
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 13, 2010 is:
acronym \AK-ruh-nim\ noun
: a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of each or most of the parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation formed from initial letters
Example sentence:
The new committee spent a fair amount of time choosing a name that would lend itself to an appealing acronym.
Did you know?
"Acronym" was created by combining "acr-" ("beginning") with "-onym," ("name" or "word"). You may recognize "-onym" in other familiar English words such as "pseudonym" and "synonym." English speakers borrowed "-onym" directly from the Greek (it derives from "onyma," the Greek word for "name"). "Acr-" is also from Greek, but it made a side trip through Middle French on its way to English. When "acronym" first entered English, some usage commentators decreed that it should refer to combinations of initial letters that were pronounced as if they were whole words (such as "radar" or "scuba"), differentiated from an "initialism," which is spoken by pronouncing the component letters (as "FBI" and "CEO"). These days, however, that distinction is largely lost, and "acronym" is a common label for both types of abbreviation.
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