Wig Wig A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber. The word wig is short for periwig., which makes its earliest known appearance in the English language in William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". Julia, disguised as the boy Sebastian, says "I'll get me such a coloured periwig." [II,2.81] Some people wear wigs to disguise baldness; a wig may be used as a less intrusive and less expensive alternative to medical therapies for restoring hair or for a religious reason. In Egyptian society men and women commonly had clean shaven or close cropped
Word of the year (Norway) in the Syrian Civil war and related conflicts, mostly for ISIL. The word was used in Norwegian media for the first time in 2010 by terror expert Brynjar Lia who had the word from fellow terror expert Thomas Hegghammer. Word of the year (Norway) Årets ord () is named by the Language Council of Norway, since 2012 in cooperation with the Norwegian School of Economics. Choices since 2008 have been "finanskrise" ("financial crisis"), "svineinfluensa" ("swine influenza"), "askefast" ("ash stuck"), "rosetog" ("rose march"), "nave" (referring to living on benefits from NAV without really needing it) and "sakte-TV" ("slow-TV"). In addition, the