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Word of the Day for Saturday, August 7, 2010mojo \MOH-joh\, noun: 1. Personal magnetism; charm. "Where's my beautiful fiancé?" Alex asked. "In here bragging about how she worked her mojo on you." Another reason this job should be entered into with great caution is that Simon Cowell is taking his not insignificant mojo elsewhere. Mojo comes from moco, "witchcraft," a word in the Gullah dialect. The Gullah are African-Americans who now live in parts of South Carolina and Florida and preserved a greater amount of their African heritage. They speak a creole that uniquely incorporates a great deal of African grammar and loanwords. | |||||||||
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  OK, "ice cream" is obvious, but the word "yogurt" was created by a misunderstanding. Get the scoopDouble or single scoop? Cone or cup? However you take it, all frozen desserts have one thing in common. Nothing tastes better on a summer afternoon than an ice-cold, sweet treat. Frozen yogurt is fairly new to the world of sweets. It was introduced in the 1970s under the name Frogurt, and in the 1980s sales skyrocketed. The... | |||||||||
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