Monday, July 25, 2005

Lexicography


If there is a new synonym to be included in the new prints of English Thesauruses, then it will be “Kuwait”, and it is for:
- Oil or Petroleum, the crude product that is distilled and refined to produce a wide variety of industrial oils and oil-based products.
I think Mirriam-Webster should be updated.


More on "Being a Kuwait":
- "It's a sort of Kuwait of East Asia" (1996) Link
- Azerbaijan - A New Kuwait (1997)
- "Kuwait is Oil" (1999) Link
- Equatorial Guinea: Africa's Kuwait? (December 2001)
- “Norway is rich because it is Europe's Kuwait” (June 2004) Link
- "China's Kuwait" hopes for petchem desert bloom (Today)

1 comment:

Karim2k said...

Middle east have the oily reputation to be the laf of the black gold, even her in Tunisia we have such view.