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New Postable and Non-Postable Terms and Term Changes 2008

January - March | April - June | July - Sept. | Oct. - Dec.

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January through March 2008

Postable Terms (8 total)

Non-Postable Terms (6 total)

Attorneys general USE: Cabinet officers
Auto shows USE: Automobile shows
Car shows USE: Automobile shows
Metal smiths USE: Metalworkers
Permits USE: Licenses
Urbanization USE: Urban growth

Term Changes (50 total)

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April through June 2008

Postable Terms (21 total)

Bacon
Badlands
Barbells
Barnyards
Baseball bats
Bathing caps
Bathrobes
Beachcombing
Beadwork
Bedpans
Bedrolls
Bedsheets
Begonias
Biscuits
Black-eyed Susans
Bleachers
Fasteners
Field hockey players
Motorcyclists
Red-light districts
Undertakers

Non-Postable Terms (12 total)

Banana trees USE: Banana plants
Bats, Baseball USE: Baseball bats
Bay trees USE: Laurels
Bed linens USE: Bedsheets
Bikers (Motorcyclists) USE: Motorcyclists
Funeral directors USE: Undertakers
Morticians USE: Undertakers
Rudbeckia USE: Black-eyed Susans
Sex-oriented businesses USE: Red-light districts
Sheets (Bed) USE: Bedsheets
Taxis USE: Taxicabs
Trolleys USE: Street railroads

Term Changes (100 total)

Abyss
Affidavits
Allusions
Ammunition dumps
Artists' models
Baobabs
Baseball scouts
Bathing caps
Bathrobes
Beams
Buttons (Fasteners)
Checks
Children playing adults
Cloning
Cold storage
Contorting
Credit cards
Decorations
Draft protests
Drum majors
Embalming
Escutcheons (Heraldry)
Facsimile transmissions
Fasteners
Fleur-de-lis
Girders
I-beams
Insignia
Lyricists
Mansions
Money
Motorcyclists
Pedigree
Petroleum workers
Proclamations
Roundels
Shucking
Smoking paraphernalia
Snowmobile racing
Symbols
Throwing
Unbuilt projects
Undertaking
Velcro (Trademark)
Ventilation
Vessel components
Veterans
Victories
Vigilance
Violence
Vitamins
Vitrolite (Trademark)
Vote counting
Voter registration
Voyeurism
Wagers
Wages
Wagon trains
Wallets
War blackouts
War damage
War destruction & pillage
Warmongering
Warnings
Wasps' nests
Water
Water supply
Water use
Weather control
Weight lifting
Weight loss
Weights & measures
Well houses
Wellheads
Westerns
Wheels
Whispering
White man's burden
Wigs
Winged feet
Winking
Winnowing
Wisdom
Wishbones
Witnesses
Woodcutting
Wooden churches
Wooding stations
Woodwork
Woodworking
World records
Wounds & injuries
Wrecking balls
Writing materials
Yawning
Yodel & yodeling
Yoga (Exercise)
Zionism
Zippers
Zodiac

Deleted Terms (5 total)

Children’s clothing & dress
Cut paper works (left Cut-paper works)
Education of handicapped persons
Punk culture
Workshops (Adult education)

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July through September 2008

Postable Terms (40 total)

Blueberries
Bow ties
Brains
Bridesmaids
Brussels sprouts
Bullrings
Bunk beds
Caryatids
Cattle herders
Cerebral palsy
Chemists
Children's literature
Chiropractors
Choreographers
Cigarette holders
Clarinets
Clematis
Clover
Cobras
Coleus
Columbines
Corsages
Cots
Cottonwood trees
Coveralls
Crab apples
Crocuses
Crutches
Curators
Cyclamens
Cymbals
Dairy cattle
Daylilies
Dead trees
Death masks
Dehorning
Fruit juices
Herders
Larkspurs
Putti

Non-Postable Terms (9 total)

Bongo drums USE: Hand drums
Bull rings USE: Bullrings
Cacti USE: Cactus
Cherubs USE: Putti
Community leaders USE: Civic leaders
Condemned persons USE: Prisoners
Cowherds USE: Cattle herders
Delphiniums USE: Larkspurs
Surgical casts USE: Medical equipment & supplies

Term Changes (159 total)

Actions & defenses
Activities
Adoption
Adult education
Aeronautics
Air shows
Alchemy
Animal breeding
Animal husbandry
Antitrust law
Archaeological sites
Architectural sculpture
Art
Atrocities
Auctions
Balls (Parties)
Banquets
Barbecues
Bas-reliefs
Behavior
Big game hunting
Birth control
Bison hunting
Blasting
Book talks
Brussels sprouts
Buffets (Cookery)
Business panics
Camp meetings
Campaigns & battles
Cattle
Cattle branding
Charcoal making
Chautauquas
Choreography
Cider
City planning
Civil defense
Civil disobedience
Communication
Confiscations
Confrontations
Conspiracy
Cookery
Corn husking
Crimes
Criticism
Crying
Dance
Dance marathons
Dance parties
Death
Death marches
Declarations of war
Deer hunting
Demonstrations
Dioramas
Disciplines
Discrimination
Diseases
Dismemberment
Divorce
Dog walking
Dogcatching
Dogsledding
Do-it-yourself work
Drowning
Drunk driving
Eating & drinking
Eavesdropping
Economic & social conditions
Electrocutions
Elopements
Entertainment
Escapes
Events
Exhibitions
Fingerprinting
Fire fighting
Flag desecration
Flood control
Flowers
Foraging
Gerontology
Goatherds
Handicraft
Heads of state
Healing
Health care
Home food processing
Horns (Animal)
Hugging
Hunting
Hurrying
Imitation
Interviews
Investigation
Judicial proceedings
Kangaroo hunting
Kissing
Lace
Law & legal affairs
Law enforcement
Laws
Lilies
Locomotion
Magic
Maintenance & repair
Manners & customs
Marooned
Masks
Meetings
Moose hunting
Moral aspects of war
Municipal services
Muskox hunting
National liberation movements
Needlework
Objects
Oral contraceptives
Orange juice
Parades & processions
Parties
Pills
Political campaigns
Political elections
Processes & techniques
Puma hunting
Punishment & torture
Quilting
Religious meetings
Religious retreats
Religious services
Rites & ceremonies
Rodeos
Safety
Scandals
Sculpture
Seances
Secondhand sales
Sled dog racing
Shepherdesses
Shepherds
Social science
Somnambulism
Spin (Aerodynamics)
Square dancing
Standards (Identifying artifacts)
Supernatural practices
Textiles
Traffic congestion
Transportation
Trees
Visits of state
Walking
War blackouts
War crimes
Warfare
Wounds & injuries

Deleted Terms (6 total)

Children’s clothing & dress
Cut paper works (left Cut-paper works)
Education of handicapped persons
Punk culture
Women’s education
Workshops (Adult education)

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October through December 2008

Postable terms (15 total)

Fezes
Filing cabinets
Filmmakers
Finches
Flamethrowers
Foam
Forsythia
French horns
Holy water stoups
Microphones
Prostitutes
Rose windows
Rural areas
Spolia
Street clocks

Non-Postable Terms (8 total)

Countryside USE: Rural areas
Feeding troughs USE: Troughs
Fezzes USE: Fezes
Flame throwers USE: Flamethrowers
Froth USE: Foam
Spoils (Architecture)USE: Spolia
Spume USE: Foam
Stoups, Holy water USE: Holy water stoups

Term Changes (4 total)

Courtesans
Musicians
Troughs
Watering troughs

Deleted Terms (0 total)

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