Somebody's bound to lose in The Spoiler Game.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: November 4, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Joanne Weintraub

The third print edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published in 1992, gives four common definitions for "spoiler."

The fourth and latest edition, which came out in 2000, adds this notable fifth definition: "a post to a newsgroup that divulges information intended to be a surprise, such as a plot twist in a movie."

There's little doubt that people have been spoiling surprises for each other since our species began to speak, or even to point. But it took the Web to raise the spoiler to an art form _ and to spawn the considerate ...

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