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A new world of words

Broadcast: Midmorning, 08/23/2006, 10:06 a.m.

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Know any celebutants? Paris Hilton, perhaps? Celebutant is just one of the many new words in the latest edition American Heritage Dictionary released this summer. Midmorning talks with linguist Anatoly Liberman about new words and the ones that slip into everyday speech.

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  • Anatoly Liberman: Professor in the Department of German, Scandanavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota and author of "Word Origins and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone."

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