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	<description>Wordy &#038; worthy musings about all things Lexico.</description>
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		<title>Addressing Our Weaknesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I&#8217;m Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD., editor and compiler of Roget&#8217;s New Millenium Thesaurus. The synonym &#8220;weaker sex&#8221; appears in many thesauruses for terms like woman, lady, and female.  It is considered an informal, possibly derogatory, synonym for those words. Due to the way our search technology works, a search for weaker appeared to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lexico.com/blog/2008/04/09/addressing-our-weaknesses/</link>
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		<title>Catching Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard the news? Audio pronunciations are now free on Dictionary.com. Look up a word and click on the speaker icon to hear how to say it.
Illustrations are free now too.
And we won&#8217;t bother you with pop-under advertising anymore.
Sorry it took us so long to get back to you. When faced with a challenging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lexico.com/blog/2008/04/02/catching-up/</link>
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		<title>There IS A Word For Your Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a lexicographer, I share the common frustration of trying to find the word for what you mean, locating the precise word for what you want to say.  For those like me who have an idea, concept, or definition but who do not know, cannot remember, or are uncertain of the word, we offer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lexico.com/blog/2008/01/23/the-reverse-dictionary/</link>
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		<title>The Ubiquitous Dictionary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubiquitous, that is, assuming you take your mobile phone everywhere &#8212; and I do. A ubiquitous thesaurus, encyclopedia, and general reference library as well. How cool is that? (The quantification of cool is always a tricky matter, but in my professional opinion it&#8217;s pretty cool.) I&#8217;m not just tooting our own horn here. In fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lexico.com/blog/2008/01/18/the-ubiquitous-dictionary/</link>
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		<title>Hello, Internets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Lexico blog.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lexico.com/blog/2008/01/14/hello-internets/</link>
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