Britain's Plain English Campaign has singled out the country's meteorology authority and U.S. President George W. Bush as butchers of the language.

The latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary boasts 22,000 pages of definitions. While that may seem far from succinct, new research suggests the reference manual is meticulously organized to be as concise as possible — a format that mirrors the way our brains make sense of and categorize the countless words in our vast vocabulary.

WIKI, ta-da and irritainment are among the new wor

By Mary Ann Ford NORMAL - Babbitt's Books, a downtown Normal mainstay for 22 years, is moving. But customers won't have to go far to find it. The used bookstore will be moving from 104 W. North St. to 117 E. Beaufort St., only about a block and a half away.

Corrects status of child pornography case in paragraph 13 as reported by Denver Post By Keith Coffman BOULDER, Colo.