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Dear All…
Faculty Advisor David LeNoir and his student editors (Lacey Blankenship, Ben Brooks,
Andrew Burchett, Joanna Busse, Brandon Colvin, Lesley Doyle, Morgan Eklund, Heather Funk,
Ryan Hunton, Jennifer Kiefer, Jessie Magee, Abigale Piper, Eileen Ryan) wish to announce
that your 2009 ZEPHYRUS is here! To the English Office post haste for ye free copy.

And the Zephyrus award winners this year:

JIM WAYNE MILLER POETRY AWARD: Brent Fisk for “Blue Smoke”

BROWNING LITERARY CLUB POETRY AWARD: Brittany Szabo for “This is not an apology”

LADIES LITERARY CLUB FICTION AWARD: Chad Emerson for “My Doppelganger”

WANDA GATLIN ESSAY AWARD: Kimberly Reynolds for “Medical Record”

ZEPHYRUS ART AWARD: Shelly Bender for “Dandelions”

• BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The words in the mental cupboard

  tags: words, vocabulary

  • US company Global Language Monitor (GLM) believes that the one millionth word will be added to the English language in mid-June.

    
    

    NEW WORDS/PHRASES Airline pulp - airline food Cutties - formal Indian term for ladies’ underwear Noob - neophyte in computer gaming Truthiness - having the ring of truth though false Source: Global Language Monitor

    While there is agreement that a word becomes a word when it is used by one person and understood by another, grammarians and lexicographers stand divided when deciding which to include when calculating a total.

    Obamamania, bankster and bloggerati are just some of the "brand new words" GLM has been tracking.