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Top 10 lists! Get your top 10 lists here! Memorable Marketing Turkeys from CMO makes you thankful you don’t come up with such ideas, right? Not you. Never. [ Link Cincom ]

Publicity Hound points the way to the top ten PR blunders.

The year in media errors and corrections. This site is a great find as it reports on corrections, errors, and retractions. [ Link: Neat New Stuff I Found This Week ]

Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster Online have published their words of the year for 2005. Dictionary.com focuses on the most looked-up words for every letter of the alphabet. Obviously, this is 26 words. However, there could be a B word that appears more often than another word in this list. But it’s nice to see every letter get recognition as some unlucky letters like Q and Z rarely make such lists.

Merriam-Webster lists the top ten of the most looked-up words.

Lake Superior State University went a different route and lists the most banished words. Making the list: red state / blue state, carbs, blogs, and “You’re fired!” Good list as I agree some of these words have been overkill.

You probably heard by now as it was a frequently linked entry as the news hit. New Oxford American Dictionary pronounced podcast as the word of the year. Other words included bird flue, ICE, sudoku (w00t!), and trans fat. The dictionary is already collecting words for 2006. Send your nominations to dictionaries@oup.com.

El word de sponsor…

Imagine a job in which you set your own hours, and live wherever you please: at the beach, in the mountains, in an apartment in Paris, London, or Berlin. As a copywriter, you can.

No one can predict how things turn out. Big wig execs like to make a strong statement, but sometimes they’re far off base… as the Foot in Mouth Awards show.

Top 9 Best and Worst Lists of 2005 from About Freelance Writing