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OK, so I am sure that you have probably heard of these (if you have not actually made them), but on the slight chance you haven’t, give it a try.
You get up in the morning, you rush to get ready for work, you rush out the door without a breakfast. Perhaps you grab a bagel and cream cheese, perhaps a muffin, perhaps an Egg McMuffin. If you’re lucky, you get a pastry, a hearty breakfast of pancakes and sausage and eggs, or an English fry-up.
Hoodies, wags, carbon footprints and muffin tops have entered the English language, according to the ninth edition of the Collins English Dictionary launched Monday.The new arrivals provided a snapshot of the way the English language has thrown up new words to describe the modern world.
Look, I get it. You havent eaten an English Muffin since Clinton was president, you only eat frosted mini wheats in your dreams, and you linger on those Barilla pasta commercials to live vicariously through swarthy Italians swirling sauce-laden spaghetti on forks. Youre on Atkins. OK. Youre not on ATKINS. You just eat low carb. Fine. The...
The arbiter of Australian English, the Macquarie Dictionary, has declared "muffin top" the word of the year for 2006 - even though it is two words - defeating "affluenza", a noun that describes dissatisfaction with consumerism.
English muffin thomass
