Reporters in Moscow who had been staking out the American Embassy there first got wind this morning that Daniloff might be released, after he left the Embassy in a car and flashed the V for Victory sign.
Now what's interesting is it's the spelling that's made this word so new, because there already was a word 'lovey' in the language, going back right to the 1960s, spelt l-o-v-e-y.
So, instead of putting the tongue behind the top teeth for: " th" , " th" , " th" , they're just putting their top teeth on their bottom lip: " f" , " f" , " f" , or: " v" , " v" , " v" when they say those words.