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Burqini gets dictionary nod in Australia
Jan 20, 2012, 6:53 GMT
Sydney - Burqini, a full-length swimming costume for Muslim women, is the favourite to be named Australia's Word of the Year, Macquarie Dictionary compilers said Friday.
It has received the most votes in a competition won last year by googleganger, a play on the German word doppelganger, describing similarly named people listed by an internet search engine.
The winner in 2009 was shovel-ready, used by politicians for government projects they claimed could get going immediately.
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