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                    [ArticleID] => 1325247
                    [Title] => 'Selfie' among top 15 words added to Merriam-Webster dictionary
                    [Summary] => 

Here are the top 15 words and definitions added to the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-20 08:38:33 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1452321 [AuthorName] => Leanne Italie [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140520/selfie-merriam-webster-dictionary.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1263818 [Title] => ‘Sexting’ [Summary] =>

Ayon sa Wikipedia.com, ang sexting ay ang pakikipag-text ng mga sexual na bagay o pagpapadala ng mga sexual pictures.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134706 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1525869 [AuthorName] => Miss ‘S’ [SectionName] => Para Malibang [SectionUrl] => para-malibang [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 485138 [Title] => Frenemy, locavore among new words in Webster's [Summary] =>

Do you use a sock puppet to secretly keep track of your frenemies?

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-09 23:03:01 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 25826 [Title] => Ben Tulfo’s ‘bitag-style’ of crime-fighting [Summary] =>

He’s a Tulfo, all right, but Ben insists that he’s not a part of what he  calls “the Tulfo package,” referring to his brothers Mon, Raffy and Erwin who are fearless crime-fighters.

[DatePublished] => 2007-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 364358 [Title] => Whatever and ever, amen [Summary] => So Madonna is catching some flak for skirting Malawi adoption rules to express-shop for her latest baby?

Whatever.

So some Republican congressman in Florida was nabbed sending sexually graphic e-mails to a young male page?

Whatever.

So Google just paid $1.65 billion to acquire YouTube.com, that shrine to amateur video documentation?

Whatever.

So billboards are being unfurled once again in Metro Manila, a week or so after the public outrage over their destructiveness had been whipped up into a Milenyo-like froth?
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346706 [Title] => EDITORIAL — Left behind in the IT revolution [Summary] => "Google" is now officially a verb, included in the latest version of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. A report last week said the word is one of the new entries including "mouse potato" that grew out of the rapid advances in information technology in recent years. Many Filipino students who get a chance to look at this new dictionary will be puzzled by the new words. [DatePublished] => 2006-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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