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Friday, January 13, 2006

china broadband use catching up to usa

China is coming close to the U.S. in terms of total broadband users, with Chinese Internet users more likely to be on broadband connections than their American counterparts, a study says, "Reflecting the relatively recent introduction of the Internet to China, shared broadband access is relatively more common than in the U.S."

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Posted by Kwintessential at 7:31 PM
Edited on: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:58 PM
Categories: Web Globalization

word of the day: sesquipedalian

sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective:
1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables.
noun: A long word.

As a sesquipedalian stylist, he can throw a word like 'eponymous" into a sentence without missing a beat. --Campbell, Patty, "The sand in the oyster," The Horn Book Magazine, May 15, 1996

Posted by Kwintessential at 7:20 PM
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