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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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Vuvuzela Is Back, Again: This Time, in the Oxford English Dictionary

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Aug 22 2010, 2:45 PM ET Comment

Last month, we pointed out that the vuvuzela--the ubiquitous buzzing horn that we assumed would go away after the World Cup ended--lived on in the Inception trailer. Now, the instrument is back, again, in this year's edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. NPR reports:

The latest edition of The New Oxford American Dictionary is out, and it's got more than 2,000 new words and phrases, including "vuvuzela," "microblogging," "staycation" and "turducken" -- a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey.

Listen to the full story at NPR.


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