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**//Change 1995-Present //**  Objective: Students should be able to describe one or more linguistic change that has occurred between 1995 and today.

Thoughts on "change": Change can be different things to different people. However, because of the immediacy of technology in our daily lives, every one of us either has to change or be left behind. Becoming a lifelong learner is no longer a hobby but a necessity. If I had quit learning and changing since 1995, I would not be able to send an email, text on my iPhone, or order my favorite pair of shoes from Zappos.  Change can take many forms: 1. **//__Personal__//**-- Since 1995, many of us have had our personal lives change drastically with the addition to our family of a son or daughter. I had imbedded some fantastic baby pictures of Steve here, but somehow, he has blocked them! 

2. **//__Community__//**-- In Mt. Lebanon, you are going to be most directly affected by a huge, looming change-- the renovation to the high school you will be entering next year. Make your thoughts about the subject known! Email your ideas/opinions to: schoolboard@mtlsd.net  3. **//__National__//**-- In 2001, our nation changed forever when the Twin Towers fell in New York City. In 2008, our country elected Barack Obama president. The history of our nation has changed dramatically in your lifetime! 

4. **//__World__//**-- Technology has made our world "flat".   OK... enough thoughts... You may not think about this every day, but what happens in our daily lives can have a profound effect and change the world in which we live. Right down to the words we have to describe it. Every year up to 4,000 words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Words like "blog" and "Google" and "yada yada" and "jihadist".  I'll chronicle just a few of the interesting ones on this wiki. Several sources were referenced for these words. The Oxford English Dictionary and The American Dialect Society select a "word of the year"; some of these words come from those choices. The others come from The Global Language Monitor's list of the Top Ten Words from 2000-2009.

1995: **chuddies ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (OED) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and ** web ** <span style="color: #0d0dab; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (ADS) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1996: ** mom ** <span style="color: #0d0dab; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (ADS) as in "soccer mom" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1997: ** WAP ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (OED) for Wireless Application Protocol <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and ** millenium bug ** <span style="color: #0d0dab; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (ADS) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1998: ** to Google ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (OED) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and ** e ** <span style="color: #0d0dab; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (ADS) as in e-mail <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1999: ** blogger ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (OED) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and ** Y2K ** <span style="color: #0d0dab; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(ADS) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2000: ** bling ** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (OED) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and ** chad ** <span style="color: #0d0dab; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (ADS) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">