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Article: Tegic Reveals the Year's Most Buzzworthy Additions to T9 Dictionary.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- December 14, 2005
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SEATTLE -- New to T9: Puggles, Vodcasts, Ubersexuals and More
Did you know that a Puggle is a new breed of dog crossed between a Pug and a Beagle? Or that Vlogs (video blogs) are the latest rage? Language is constantly evolving, with new words becoming part of our culture every day. To help us all better communicate, these and other words have been added to a special T9 predictive text input dictionary for users to tap into when texting on their mobile phones.
In collaboration with Paul McFedries, author of Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture and owner of http://www.wordspy.com, a Web site devoted to "lexpionage," the sleuthing of new ...