Referees Study Curses In Preparation For U.S.-England, Chicago Tribune 10/6/2010

Language, News, Onomasiology
 
 

 

RUSTENBURG, South Africa — The Brazilian referee and his assistants who will work the England-United States match at the World Cup have been studying English-language obscenities the players might use.

Carlos Simon will referee Saturday’s match in Rustenburg, assisted by Roberto Braatz and Altemir Hausmann. They want to ensure players can’t get away with abuse.

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

English Language, Language, News

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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eye spy

Τελεστές για μηχανές αναζήτησης

Googleology, News, Research

 

Εδώ και αρκετό καιρό ήθελα να γράψω κάτι παραπάνω για τις μεθόδους αναζήτησης στο Google g (άντε και στο Bing μια και πολλοί μού έχετε πει ότι τώρα πια με το θάνατο της Altavista προτιμάτε το Bing). Όμως για πολλούς και διάφορους λόγους ποτέ δεν κατάφερνα να το ξεκινήσω. Τώρα λοιπόν, βρήκα το χρόνο και σας παρουσιάζω ενημερωμένες τις μεθόδους έρευνας σε μηχανές αναζήτησης. Αυτό είναι το πρώτο μέρος μια και στο δεύτερο θα καλύψω τους υπόλοιπους τελεστές.

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Google’s Tally Of World’s Book Titles: 129,864,880 – NPR August 12, 2010

Googleology

Google’s Tally Of World’s Book Titles: 129,864,880

August 12, 2010

 

 
How many different books are there in the world? It’s a question Jon Orwant often hears. He’s an engineering manager at Google Books — part of the tech company’s efforts to digitize all of the world’s books. Recently, they announced an answer: 129,864,880. Melissa Block talks to Orwant about how Google came up with the number.

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MELISSA BLOCK, host: You may not have devoted your waking hours to wondering exactly how many books have been published, but Google has. In fact, they’re trying to count as part of a mission to index and digitize all of them.

So far, Google says, our planet has produced 129,864,880 books – at least that was the number as of last week. Jon Orwant is engineering manager at Google Books. So Jon, that was the number last week. What about now?

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