Blog as Word

Yesterday Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, said that "blog" was the word most often looked up on the website. M-W defines a blog as: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks. Starting in July the website received tens of thousands of hits monthly for the word. Next year, the word will appear in the latest edition of the M-W Collegiate Dictionary. All the "words of the year" are here.

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