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The L Word has been part of the mainstreaming of gay culture on major television shows. Other shows that have ... qualify for this distinction include Will & Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer As Folk, and Ellen. Bette Porter and Tina Kennard have also been deemed a supercouple for Primetime Television.
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Last year's selection for Word of the Year was another eco-friendly term, "carbon neutral." The choice of "locavore" for 2007 reflects an ongoing shift in environmental and ecological awareness over the last several years. Lexicographers at Oxford University Press have observed that this social transformation is having a noticeable effect on the English language.
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After MacWrite, Word for Macintosh never had any serious rivals, although programs such as Nisus Writer provided features such as non-contiguous selection which were not added until Word 2002 in Office XP. In addition, many users complained that major updates reliably came more than two years apart, too long for most business users at that time.
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In contrast to a spelling bee that quizzes students on the spelling of words, the National Word Power Challenge tests students' understanding of what words mean. 14-year-old Minerva Byars, whose favorite word is perfidy, began reading at the age of three and finished 52 books last year. She counts The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as her favorite.
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[One] problem of the aforementioned fact is that scientists still are not done yet cataloging and discovering the multitude of possibilities that MS Word offers. According to inside sources, MS Word originally was not created for humans, but ordered and specified by a highly developed alien race living on the backside of Uranus. This explains the high number of features that MS Word had since its initial beta release. However, no human was able to use a product with that level of complexity, which accounts for the manuals some two decades later still being full of errors and user-friendliness or intuitiveness not being the strong side of MS Word. It ... is the reason for the highly sophisticated user interface, which tends to paralyze new user for the first twenty three years.
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The L Word is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia at Coast Mountain Films Studios, which was formerly known as Dufferin Gate Studios Vancouver. The studio was onced owned by Dufferin Gate Productions, the sister company to Temple Street Productions, the Canadian producer of the U.S. version of Queer as Folk.
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