Benjamin Franklin Letters Rediscovered by Prof. Alan Houston

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Did Benjamin Franklin Cheat On His Wife? Read Excerpt From Newly Discovered Letter

Benjamin Franklin Letters Discovered: Courtesy of Thomas Birch

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Susan Boyle: "I Wouldn't Want To Change Myself Too Much"

According to a recent CNN article, singing sensation "'Susan Boyle, 47, has said she's still the same humble girl next door despite her knockout singing on "Britain's Got Talent.'"

Susan Boyle also said: "'I wouldn't want to change myself too much because that would really make things a bit false,' she told CNN's 'American Morning' on Friday. 'I want to receive people as the real me, a real person.'"

"'A clip of Boyle's performance on the talent show had more than 15 million views on YouTube by Friday, and the world's media have beaten a path to her door in Blackburn, Scotland.'"
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"'During an earlier interview with CNN's Atika Shubert, Boyle expressed amazement at people's reaction to her -- 'the way everyone seems to have embraced me, the way they seem to have apparently fallen in love with me,'" she said.
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Susan Boyle and Her Fans Are All "Gobsmacked"

Susan Boyle said, after her triumphant performance Saturday, April 11, on Britain's Got Talent, that she is "absolutely gobsmacked." 1

Now there's a new word for you and for me also! What does the word gobsmacked mean exactly?

According to an article by Richard Nordquist, "'The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) defines 'gobsmacked' as 'being speechless or lost for words as the result of amazement or shock."' Similarly, Sara Tulloch, author of The Oxford Dictionary of New Words (1991), offers the definition 'astounded, flabbergasted; speechless or incoherent with amazement; overawed.'"

Gobsmacked is "a combination of gob, mouth, and smacked. It means 'utterly astonished, astounded.'" 2

1 http://grammar.about.com/b/2009/04/17/gobsmacked-by-susan-boyle.htm
2 http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gob1.htm
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