Press Release

2003 Word of the Year

MERRIAM-WEBSTER ANNOUNCES "DEMOCRACY"
AS 2003 WORD OF THE YEAR

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2003:

1. democracy
2. quagmire
3. quarantine
4. matrix
5. marriage
6. slog
7. gubernatorial
8. plagiarism
9. outage
10. batten

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