The Oxford English Dictionary’s annual June update has a decidedly tech feel this year as the much ballyhooed reference title is adding the words “tweet,” “crowdsourcing,” “e-reader” and “re-direct.”
Every June the dictionary adds several new words to the English vernacular, provided they meet certain criteria. While “tweet” does not meet the standard of having been in existence for at least 10 years, OED chief editor John Simpson said, “it seems to be catching on.”
AllThingsD reports that the 2013 OED update is particularly tech-savvy, “Whatever the reason, ‘tweet’ was just one of a batch of tech-related words and phrases added to the OED in the last year. Among the others is ‘big data,’ the fashionable phrase and subject of glossy photo books that evokes the act of analyzing large data sets for otherwise undetectable patterns.”

Every four years, American citizens vote in an election for the next President of the United States. The next Presidential Election is in 2024. Each state has a number of “electoral votes”, depending on the state’s representatives to Congress (based on population of the state) and each state’s two senators. Additionally, the District of Columbia has 3 electors. That...
October 9, 2023, is Leif Eriksson Day. Eriksson, a Viking (Norse) and son of Erik the Red, was born around 970 AD, in Iceland. It is believed that Eriksson (also spelled Ericson, Erikson) sailed to North America (area of Canada) around the year 1000 and named the area Vinland. Although some say the name was for the wild grapes found growing in the area, others say the name means “land of meadows”.He eventually left and returned to Greenland and never sailed back to North America...
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