Wednesday, November 28, 2007Pick Me! *sits up straight, waves hand wildly* It's been a while since I bragged about a Wordie media mention*, but I liked the tone of this one: yesterday Wordie was chosen as the Yahoo! Pick of the Day. The kicker says it all: "¡Que viva Wordie! Romp through the "recent words" section, acquaint yourself with the top 100 citers, linger among the most recent themed attractions, and then declare yourself a wordie. Go forth, friends, and flourish linguistically."Right on, Yahoo!**. Right on. * To balance the scales, here's a gem from the archives. Read this list bottom to top. ** Question: if Yahoo! is the last word in a sentence, do you still use closing punctuation? It makes sense that you would, but man, it's chugly. Labels: Yahoo
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I've got to say, I didn't even know we HAD a "Top 100 Citers" list! But I'm happy to be #1. I mean, reesetee's a given, so he doesn't count, right? ;-)
Congrats for the accolades! Good timing, with the recent site birthday and all... # posted by
 : November 29, 2007 at 7:48 PM
That's awesome John, any publicity is good publicity, which by the multiplicative property of goodness means that good publicity is great publicity.
Hi, I'm a copy editor at Yahoo!, and yes, if "Yahoo!" appears at the end of a sentence, you include both the exclamation point at the end of "Yahoo!" and the ending punctuation of the sentence. And yeah, it's pretty chugly.
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Congrats on making the Top 25 Picks of 2007! I recommended your site for inclusion in Picks, and I voted for it to be in the Top 25. Glad to see others voted for it, too! # posted by
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