Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Stress

When I looked up the word "stress", here are the definitions/references that I found:

In the OED: 1st definition: Hardship, straits, adversity, affliction; and interesting usage: 1830 CARLYLE Richter Again Ess. 1840 II. 326 "The *stress-memorials and siege-medals of Poverty."

First Google hit: the American Institute of Stress

First Google Image hit: on the left (c/o the BBC)

First working Google Blogsearch link: "Duh of the Week"

First JSTOR hit: Robert W. Wilkinson, "A Homonymy-Avoiding Transderivational Constraint in Terena," International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 42, No. 2 (April 1976), pp. 158-162.

First Arnet.com artwork: "Tending the Children in Medina."

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