Those of us who know that Betamax was the superior format over rival VHS probably paused wistfully over the news that Sony will cease producing blank tapes for the ageing machines still in service early next year. Most of you will probably be hard pressed remembering when video stores had two different types of cassettes …

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The Oxford Australia blog selects ‘schmick up’ (verb: to smarten (something) up; to renovate (something); to improve (something) superficially) as its word for the month of November. The post reports that the adjective schmick has undergone the contemporary fashion of being verbed and nouned, in this case with the addition of ‘up’ (thankfully we’ve been …

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