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0	Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae? Today's Word of the Day could spark some controversy between the two rival cities of Ithaca, New York and Two Rivers, Wisconsin. (Say what?)... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: May 21, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights? According to the author of today's Word of the Day, this message appeared on a billboard decades back to signal a perceived exodus from Seattle after... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: May 20, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Word of the Day - Drinking City with a Football Problem Apparently Buffalo is a drinking city with a football problem. While the sole definition for today's Word of the Day disparages the Buffalo Bills,... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: May 19, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Word of the Day - Annual Strike: New York, New York Today's Word of the Day features a cultural phenomenon that appears to be quite common in New York: strike. OK, it's not just New Yorkers who strike,... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: May 18, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
1	University of Wisconsin-Madison students compete for the best business brainchild City Dictionary, a Web site (www.citydictionary.com) that dishes up local culture and language for various cities, won the top prize in the 2009 G.... Source: madison.com Date: May 12, 2009 Submitted by: tecarmona Comments: 0
1	City Dictionary takes top prize at Burrill busness plan contest City Dictionary, a Madison Web site that provides a user-guided tour of individual cities' colloquialisms, won the top prize today at the G. Stephen... Source: wistechnology.com Date: May 12, 2009 Submitted by: tecarmona Comments: 0
1	Web site with flair for local language takes $10,000 prize To the younger set, it's not Milwaukee - it's Ill Mill, said endearingly. That's according to the City Dictionary, a Web site aiming to flesh out... Source: jsonline.com Date: May 12, 2009 Submitted by: tecarmona Comments: 0
1	Speaking Wisconsin This is perhaps one of the most hotly contested debates within the American English lexicon:What do you call a carbonated beverage sweetened with... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Apr 13, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Word of the Day - Ho Chi Minh Trail: Madison, WI Today's Word of the Day hits close to home, literally. I'm not from Vietnam, but I don't live too far from Bassett Street in Madison. I asked around... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Apr 13, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Word of the Day - Crick: Pittsburgh, PA The crick pronunciation might be used in Pittsburgh, but it certainly isn't unique to the Steel City. Growing up in La Crosse, WI, I noticed older... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Apr 12, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Word of the Day - Parish: New Orleans, LA This is an interesting geographic tidbit from the state of Louisiana. "Parish" is the Louisianan term for "county". As the top definition points out,... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Apr 11, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
1	Smallbany or Smalbany? Barry Popik--amateur etymologist known as an expert on the origins of Big Apple, Windy City, and hot dog--posted on his blog about "Smallbany" (or... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Oct 17, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Madison's Got Flavor A blogger for Forté Madison, a lifestyle magazine for Madison, Wisconsin recently wrote a blog post that refers to City Dictionary. Ben Wollin noticed... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Sep 30, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	City Dictionary in the News Last week the Capital Times picked up City Dictionary's Word of the Day, "People's Republic of Madison." (Click here to see the article.) This is a... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Sep 3, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
1	"People's Republic of Madison" is the Word of the Day The Capital Times took notice of City Dictionary's Word of the Day that makes reference to Madison's left-leaning politics. Source: madison.com Date: Aug 26, 2008 Submitted by: tecarmona Comments: 0
0	What is City Dictionary? If you'd like to dig deeper than our 'About Us' page and need to better understand what City Dictionary is all about, let's start with what we're... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Aug 23, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Proper? Slang? It's all good If you're entering a restaurant or a neighborhood to your city's dictionary, try to think of a common nickname for that local cultural staple. If... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Aug 11, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Double-dipping is okay...sometimes Our Citizens often ask me if a word is valid if it's used in multiple cities. My answer is usually "probably." Of course, though, it depends what you... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Aug 8, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	What's an appropriate entry? This is something that people often ask us: "So, what is a valid entry?" They get caught up with the pressure of being an author and they don't... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Aug 6, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Welcome! Welcome to the Official City Dictionary Blog. Here we will write posts on topics relevant to our Citizens. Whether it's a new feature on the site,... Source: citydictionary.com (Company Blog) Date: Aug 5, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0