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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Concise Oxford Dictionary adds "sexting," "woot"

"Current English" lexicon welcomes words that range from "cyberbullying" to "jeggings"
Posted by Roger Owen Green at 5:13 AM
Labels: dictionaries, Oxford English Dictionary

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The Friends of the Albany Public Library thank you for voting YES on the library budget on Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

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Officers, members of the Friends of the Albany Public Library Board

PRESIDENT

Gene Damm (2012)

VICE PRESIDENT

[vacant]

TREASURER

Nancy Dover (2012)

RECORDING SECRETARY

Jonathan B. Skinner (2012)

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Judi Baum (2012)


Members by year of term expiration

(alphabetically by last name within year)

2011

Bill Dufur

Evelyn Dufur

Roger O. Green

Richard Propp

Leonard Tucker

2012

Paul Hacker

Patricia Ilnicki

Joseph Krausman

Mary Alice Maynes

Mimi Mounteer

2013

Eleanor Billmyer

David L. Colchamiro

Lois Parsons

Peter G. Sokaris

Willie Mae Spencer


HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS

Jerome Flax

Harold Rubin

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