Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Romy, Meta, omicron – it’s a classics comeback
msn.comhave given their newborn daughter the Latin name Romy, which is short for Rosemary – from “ros marinus”, meaning “rose of the sea”.
Her second name, Iris, was the name of the Greek messenger goddess and personification of the rainbow. Over the past few weeks, there has been an explosion of Greek – and Latin – terms in the headlines.
The biggest – and most worrying – classical development is in the spread of omicron. Like the previous strains, such as beta and delta, it was named after a letter of the Greek alphabet.
It’s pronounced with a short “o” and literally means “little o” in ancient Greek. The last letter in the Greek alphabet, omega – said with a long “o” – means “big o” in ancient Greek.
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