WOTY 2005 (I nominate "snowclone")
As 2005 nears its end, perhaphs we should be thinking of a list of candidates for word of the year (WOTY). The New Oxford American Dictionary named iPods podcast as its WOTY, considering bird flu,...
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"extraordinary rendition""waterboard""refugee" (due to the controversy over the media's use of the term during Katrina)
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An Oxford University Press blog gives some other WOTY candidates that were rejected:blog.oup.com/oupblogICE (an entry stored in one's cellular phone that provides emergency contact information.)IDP...
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What are the criteria for a WOTY? Buzzwords? Words no one uses? Overused words? Nifty big words that have been ignored for long periods of time and that have come recently into popular use?Marti in...
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>Words no one uses?The selection relates to new buzz words, fad words, etc, or old words having a singular reappearance because of some event. We can be quite free with the criteria of our...
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Different organizations have different criteria. The ADS criteria are (from 2004, but I'm sure will be the same for this year):"Nominated words are newly prominentbut not necessarily coined in 2004and...
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It's a device used in torturing (or interrogating, depending on who you work for) prisoners by holding their head underwater.
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Dr T has it in brief -- a longer description from gooja6. Water Boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raisedand head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the...
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From David Marc Fischer's blog:blogabouttown.blogspot.comI'd still like to acknowledge the following words of 2005. They're not necessarily new to the year; I just think they're noteworthy for their...
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This thread wouldn't be complete without mention of the selection by ADS:listserv.linguistlist.orgDate: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:33:25 -0700From: Grant Barrett Subject: Truthiness is the 2005 Word of the...
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A term I've been hearing too much lately is "daddy baby", meaning simply "father". I believe it is an African-American term, but is gaining legs on TV.
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That's odd. It doesn't match the female form, "baby mamma".
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I've heard the term "baby daddy", referring to an unmarried father-to-be. "Monkey-pox" was a more interesting term than "bird flu", but that was from 2004, I guess.
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You are right Robert. Must be my dyslexia kicking in again.
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