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The Washington Times praises former US president George Bush for 'the bobbitting of both Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega'.Īlcohol appears to trigger bobbitting.

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The Ottawa Citizen urges students to learn how to cope with 'bobbitting'. When she was called by the Speaker, she quickly changed her mind, asking the Prime Minister how he could say that British industry was not a matter for Philips alone produces 13 different kettlesĪngela Eagle, the Labour MP for Wallasey, had been planning to ask about the Pergau dam in Malaysia, the subject of a so-called arms-for-aid controversy. But in Britain product proliferation continues apace. In north America a whole anti-consumerism movement is gathering strength to combat the toothbrush explosion and other excesses. It may also repackage its ragbag of own-label petfoods under a strong single sub-brand in a threat to Mars-owned Pedigree Petfoods and Dalgety. J SAINSBURY is planning to launch a new branded cola to challenge Coca-Cola and Pepsi. It has become commonplace to assume that 'bancassurers' will have half the life insurance market by the end of the decade. The distribution power of a banking network has been much copied, most recently by Halifax Building Society. Apparently, most only children find it difficult to rebel as adolescents. True, but I would argue that 'onlies' experience this feeling in spades.

This is mere palmists' patter, stuff which applies to everyone. 'I'm a sort of retard.' Yeah, yeah, you with siblings may be saying. Ways but I'm very childish, 'said one 'only'. Chien Liu-liang, 51, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment Last month in the city of Taichung, a Taiwanese wife bobbitted her husband with a pair of scissors after learning of his affairs with other women. Perhaps one might call it 'depenistration'.' One of Blind Date's hallmarks is.Īsked to define 'bobbitt', Anne Seaton, of Chambers Dictionary, says: 'It's a woman's violent and vengeful removal of her partner's penis. Then comes Cilla's inevitable question: 'Well, are you going to see each other again?' And what's the answer? Nearly always 'No'.

Mr Clark's remarks will open Douglas Hurd, the Foreign Secretary, to furtherĭate, followed by a replay of their individual confessions to the cameraman -a part known to the production team by the cutesy (and apparently meaningless) name 'bish-bash'.

Neologism listingsĪLAN CLARK, the former defence and trade minister, yesterday said that the pounds 234m development money paid in the Malaysian aid-for-arms row was used as a 'soft loan' to win the contract for the Pergau dam.

They have not been rigorously analysed, and so do not represent the original list in terms of proportion or lexical range. The new words offered to you have been selected randomly from our database. The lists are the result of matching monthly chunks of newspaper text against each other chronologically since 1989.

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The words have been identified as being new by software developed by the Unit during the APRIL project.Īccording to our system, new words are those which have not occurred in previously processed newspaper text of the same type. Of course, new lexical information is available every day, in journalistic and other ephemeral text, but teachers do not necessarily have the time to search for it.Įach list contains 'new' words from the Independent (pre-2000) or Guardian (2000-) newspaper.

#Chambers dictionary of synonyms for subterranean series

We are providing a series of lists of neologisms in context for the benefit of teachers of English language, many of whom have asked us for lexical information that can form the basis of vocabulary teaching.