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The word of the decade

If you had to pick one word that epitomizes the end of the twentieth century, what would it be? According to no less an authority than John Morse, publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "Internet" is the defining noun for the '90s. "No other word has gained such widespread acceptance so quickly," said Morse of Internet, which made it into the dictionary in 1998, just four years after it started to appear regularly in print. Guess what the hot new dictionary entry was 100 years before that? Telephone.

Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:26:58 -0800