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Lifestyles of the poor and nameless

Thursday, February 03, 2005 at 3:00 PM

Hooked on phonics

I had to look up the plural of the word ratio, for a project at work. I believed it to be ratios, but a document I'm proofing kept using "ration". Since print versions of the dictionary are SOOOO last year ;-), I looked it up online at m-w.com.

While I was on the site, I noticed that today's "Word of the Day" is JINGOISM. Ah....there's a word I haven't heard in a long time. It is a noun which means "extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy."

Hmmmm. I dare you to use that in a sentence today. Oh, and the plural of ratio IS "ratios".

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