After three decades of periodically plugging word books as "gifts of gab" in this column, my bulging inbox declares that lighthearted but scholarly guides to the lingual dimension of communication have never been more commercially viable.
Educate Yourself Plug the words "starting your own business" into any search engine and you will be overwhelmed by the number of responses.
Plug the words "run until you are 80" into your Google internet search engine and you get just one hit - a letter written to the Fort Worth Runners Club (est 1978) website.
Sure you can plug the words search query Beatles and MP3 in any search engine like those from Google or Yahoo!, but you're just as likely to not find what you expect on the pages the search yields.
So I got to my lobby, hooked up to the wifi, and plugged the words Doha, souk, gay, and police into Google.
These days, if you plug the words "romantic movies" into any search engine, you can generate endless lists of titles - most of which have the same movies jockeying for position: Sleepless in Seattle, Titanic, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally.
Then, just as if I were starting a long hike by putting one foot in front of another, I plug the word "waterfall" into Google, my search engine of choice.
For now, "to Google" means to plug a word or phrase into an internet search engine.
If you want some scope of their national coverage, just plug the word "Juggalo" into google.
Plug the word "tampon" into Google's patent search, and the first result is a patent by one Kevin B. Larkin, filed on August 16, 2010.
