Chillax, Erin McKean, The Boston Globe

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Chillax If it works like a word, just use it. By Erin McKean  |  August 3, 2008 Funner. Impactful. Blowiest. Territorialism. Multifunctionality. Dialoguey. Dancey. Thrifting. Chillaxing. Anonymized. Interestinger. Wackaloon. Updatelette. Noirish. Huger. Domainless. Delegator. Photocentric. Relationshippy. Bestest. Zoomable. What do all these words have in common? Someone, somewhere, is using them with a disclaimer like

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Noam Chomsky, BBC HardTalk 18/11/2009

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Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most prominent and controversial public intellectuals. He is an internationally renowned professor of linguistics, but he is also a longstanding critic of US foreign policy and the influence of big business over the American government.

Noam Chomsky told HARDtalk the war in Afghanistan is “immoral”

He spoke to Stephen Sackur in a HARDtalk interview recorded on 3rd November 2009.

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We Know ‘Boogie’ Led To ‘Book,’ But Did ‘Nook’ Lead To ‘Nooky’?, Chicago Tribune, 21/6/2010

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June 21, 2010

When I was coaching cross-country running during the late 1970s, the runners on my team would sometimes yell before a race, “Let’s book!”

I knew that “book” meant “speed off,” but for 30 years I’ve tried to find the origin of this odd meaning of “book,” a definition that doesn’t appear in any of the dictionaries I consulted, though I’ve heard the word used this way quite often.

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