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It's now a tradition for the New Oxford American Dictionary to anoint a Word of the Year and a list of runners-up. (Courtesy of Oxford University Press)

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Buzz(word)ing in the new year

Broadcast: Midmorning, 01/01/2009, 9:06 a.m.

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Every year has its buzz words, and 2008 was no different. Midmorning word guru Anatoly Liberman takes a look at some of this year's buzz words, and the effort to reform English spelling. And as always, he'll answer listener questions about words and word origins.

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  • Anatoly Liberman: professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. His new book, "an Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology," came out in March.

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