Saturday, November 23, 2013

The true north, strong and free

I follow a hockey message board to try to keep up to snuff on information about our favorite hockey team. I don't know if it was actually on that board or on something related but I am sure that it was during hockey related surfing that I came upon this.

I knew that one.  So did the young woman from Canada.

France 3, Ukraine 0 on Tuesday at Stade de France in a European playoff game for qualification for the World Cup Brazil 2014. France advances 3-2 on aggregate.

Sunday night football feature tomorrow is AS Monaco at FC Nantes.

2 comments:

Santini said...


"Hashtag embarrassing." When did that become part of the English language?

BDE said...

“Hashtag” is the 2012 Word of the Year
January 4th, 2013

"BOSTON MARIOTT COPLEY PLACE — JAN. 4 — In its 23rd annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “hashtag” as the word of the year for 2012. Hashtag refers to the practice used on Twitter for marking topics or making commentary by means of a hash symbol (#) followed by a word or phrase."

Every year in my literacy classes we discuss neologisms (the most famous being the Word of the Year). I was surprised but not shocked at "hashtag." Last year it was "app."