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War on Terror
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You cannot have a war on a state of mind. You can have a war on terrorism.

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Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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It's a damn bomb. Shesh.

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Weblog
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A w. used to a frequently updated link page and now it means a website where a blogger blog about blogs, rss, copyright and journalism.

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Welcome to our classroom
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Well, basically
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This is often the first word used by in a presentation, or a company drone being interviewed (radio andTV) and is usually in response to a question.

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Wendy
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What fo you need?
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What's a robot
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Whiteboard
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A noun describing a white board for use with dry-erase markers. Improperly used by coworkers as a verb synonym for brainstorm. "Let's get together tomorrow and whiteboard this incredibly stupid idea."

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Who would've thunk it
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Winning Slogans
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A list of sentences that have won recent competitions.

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Word Pirates
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A web site being increasingly misused to groan about slang ("way"), or cleverly point out how ignorant "those people" can be ("you're"), in my opinion. I'm not suggesting removing off-topic postings, but perhaps the system could be modified so readers like me could filter them out. Maybe a points-based rating system would work?

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Work/Life Balance
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This word implies an appropriate balance between work and life, when described by an employer. However, we know the truer meaning of today - that there is a balance, just one crazy-out-of-whack balance towards work.

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wagging the dpg
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wanker
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Someone who masturbates continuously (male)

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war on terrorism
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They say they're waging war on terrorism, but what they're doing is state terrorism and on a bigger scale than the people they claim to be fighting against.

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wassup
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watch
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watergate
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way (preposition)
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"Way" in this sense means "far," as in "way beyond/far beyond." It does NOT mean "very." Therefore, idiocies like "way cool" are wrong, though probably not so much piracies as just illiteracy. Using "way" as a substitute for "far" allows the following usages... way out way over way above ...but NOT anything like: way high way fast way chic

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we named the monkey
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weapons of mass destruction
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They don't exist.

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webify
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wel b yon 04 best wel b yon for ever more
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they know

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welcome to our class
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wendy
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went missing
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A poor grammatical combination of words that is commonly used in law enforcement and legal reporting. Why not just say, "Since they disappeared" rather than, “They went missing”?

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weopons of mass destruction
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A box of gelignite can be a weopon of mass destruction if correctly applied. This phrase is now used for the Bush administration to hide behind to justify the war on countries that it decides to invade. It makes the supposed enemy seem more sinister.

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werd
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were did pirates went
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were going to have fun tonight
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so we can use it in everyday life

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wetness
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I don't like that wetness means the amount of pee in a diaper that either leaks out or is absorbed. I'm not even sure wetness is a word. It is wet, it is dry, it is soaked, sopping, moist, slick, soggy... No one says that something has a high degree of wetness. Only diaper commercials and deoderant ads use that word. Even porn doesn't use the word wetness.

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what
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what are you doing!?!?!
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spork

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what did they call their places to drink
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what have you
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As of today, still try to figure out what does that mean, or what have you...

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what is the time
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what pirates stole
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what's the skinny
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whatever
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see "like"

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whats up
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when my ship comes in
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where you going
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wheres the beef
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who are the pirates
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who are the pirates?
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who are the pirates?9
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why do pirates adopt this way of life
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why do pirates wear ear rings
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will turner
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= HOTTNESS

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windows
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windows washer
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winner
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"winner" is a pirate that finds the treaser and wins a battle and does not lose a limb or get hurt in any way

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women
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wonk
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Wonk actually means a nerd (Merriam-Webster 1993). In recent years its original meaning has been corrupted, or expanded, so that now it usually means specialist or expert. "I'm an energy wonk," in current usage means I know a lot about energy issues, not that I'm an asocial intellectual with energy to spare.

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woods colt
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word
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a word is a part of a sentence.

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word up
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works
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Works is not the plural of work. Often, people use "past works" or "recommended future works" in technical reports. The correct phrase is "past work". To describe "several works" (sic), one should use "several pieces of work".

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workshop
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this is a noun, not a verb. simple, really.

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world cafe
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its a new term used by yuppies 2 describe a workshop. what are they thinking?

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wp
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wrong
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wsi
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