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YESTERDAY'S WORD OF THE DAY

Had to wait till the transcripts were posted to declare a winner (yes, press conferences are transcribed by court reporters, though most of what you read here is off my own sometimes imperfect notetaking):

Kimora Lee Simmons, the latest celeb to actually choose to be followed by camera crews -- in her case for the Style Network's "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane" -- appeared yesterday afternoon to have coined a new term for this genre.

Problem was, none of us was sure how to spell it.

Here's how the transcribers, taking the phonetic way out, presented Simmons' answer to a question about whether she didn't occasionally find the cameras intrusive:

"Yes, it is intrusive. It's re-al-i-tay. It's re-al-i-tay. It's sometimes very intrusive."

So are we talking a combo of "reality" and "cinema verité"?

Or is it "reali-tay," as in "par-tay"?

Inquiring minds at Webster's are sooner or later going to want to know.

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