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Banks and the auto industry are getting them, and Americans could use one of their own, so it seems right that "bailout" is the 2008 Word of the Year at Merriam-Webster's online dictionary. Bailout, which the site defines as a rescue from financial distress, was chosen because it received the...

A few weeks ago, one of WalletPop's lead bloggers and chief word geeks, Tom Barlow, sent around an email bringing our attention to the word "frugalista." I declared it should be the first entry to our "financyossary" (fashionable finance glossary) and made a mental note to write an ode to...