Current federal law provides employers with a 5.4 percent FUTA tax credit. However, due to Californiaâs outstanding federal loan, the FUTA tax credit was reduced to 5.1 percent for the 2011 tax year, 4.8 percent for the 2012 tax year, 4.5 percent for the 2013 tax year, 4.2 percent for the 2014 tax year, and 3.9 percent for the 2015 tax year.
History for gossip. At first the word gossip, from Old English godsibb, meant âgodparent.â Later it came to mean âclose friendâ as well. Close friends, of course, share secrets. Gossip has come to mean anyone, friend or not, who shares the secrets of others.
Pizza. [Shortening and alteration of pizza .]. Our Living Language When people speak casually of ordering a za, pizza, they are unwittingly producing an expression that language historians find interesting.Za derives from the full form pizza by a process known as clipping.n the case of za, the syllable that was dropped was originally stressed and was the first syllable, which is unusual. Rents from parents and nads from gonads are other examples of the same kind of clipping.