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Apple’s iPod music player helped reshape the way we listen to music. Now it has — inadvertently — left its mark on the English language. The term “podcast” has been deemed “Word of the Year” by the New Oxford American Dictionary.

Filed under: iTMS , Video , Podcasting People seem to be coming up with new and interesting uses for podcasts all the time ( ahem ). iPlay Music offers a video podcast that aims to teach you to play the guitar. In fact, if you subscribe to the iPlay podcast in iTunes [ link ], you can get 35 free lessons. The videos scroll the chord changes and lyrics across the bottom of the screen, and

The phenomenal year of the iPod continues this week following the announcement that the New Oxford American Dictionary has designated “podcast” as the 2005 Word of the Year. According to the dictionary company, just 12 months ago, podcast was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted geeks.

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