![]() Words We're Watching talks about words we are increasingly seeing in use but that have not yet met our criteria for entry. Update: This word was added in February 2017. And some are barely remembered as trademarks today, such as heroin and granola. Some become verbs (and therefore generic), like xerox or google. ![]() Some of these are easy to identify think of Q-tip, Band-Aid, or Spam. If it is added, it will join the ranks of trademarks that have become established as generic terms. Your friend and mentor, the old ranger Norlumin seeks to bring back his beloved, who gave her life to save the realm from a demonic invasion, but at what cost Infernal Longing includes: A short side quest for a party of 4 to 5 characters of 5th to 7th level. – Alaina Kainz, Ottawa Citizen, June 1, 1994Ĭhyron is used frequently and in many different publications it's a word that is likely to be added to the dictionary sometime soon. The chyron operator would then punch the stats into a control room machine used to generate the bar of information viewers see at the bottom of their TV screens. – Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, April 19, 1989 The names would be one more line on the chyron graphics that appear at video's end. ![]() Early generic examples show attributive use, as a noun modifying another noun: – Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, February 23, 2015Ĭhyron is pronounced \KIE-ron\ and is frequently seen lower-case. Like "Get Your War On," David Rees's post-9/11 comic strip, "The Daily Show" became a gathering place for the disenchanted – a place that let viewers know they weren’t crazy. If you were driven nuts by the twenty-four-hour shouters, if you couldn't bear to watch any more flashing chyrons and Sam the Eagle gravitas, here was your catharsis. ![]()
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