Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2008

With politics and the economy foremost on the minds of many, it is no wonder that bailout—a word ubiquitously featured in discussions of the presidency and fiscal policy—took home honors as Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2008.

Bailout, defined in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition as "a rescue from financial distress," received the highest intensity of lookups on Merriam-Webster Online over the shortest period of time. As evident from the 2008 Word of the Year contenders list below, the presidential campaign and financial issues factored heavily in the concerns of our online visitors throughout the year.

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Consequences to Plagiarism

Neale Donald Walsch, best-selling author of "Conversations with
God," said Tuesday that he unwittingly passed off another writer's
Christmas anecdote as his own in a recent blog post.

As a result,
Walsch's blog on the spirituality Web site Beliefnet.com has been shut
down. The Web site said in a statement that Walsch had failed to
properly credit and attribute material from another author.

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