So, I’m a big fan of Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words (see http://www.worldwidewords.org/maillist/index.htm to subscribe). His recent edition covers the American Dialect Society’s vote on the words of the decade and some other miscelleania word winners.
Word of the year was tweet. No tweetin’ surprise there. I think tweet should become a an all-purpose naughty word, like the F word. Go tweet yourself. Are you tweetin’ me? Ah, Tweet! The possibilities are tweetin’ endless.
Most useful word of the year was fail. As in, Kathleen’s gym goals: Resolution Fail!
I loved the Dracula sneeze for most creative. It’s covering one’s mouth with the crook of one’s elbow when sneezing. I think the schools are teaching this, because both of my kids now do it, and I had never seen it before.
Hike the Appalachian trail was most euphemistic. I have loved this since I first heard it, and yes, eventually you will see this in one of my books. “Dude, tonight I’m going to hike the Appalachian trail!” Fist bumps all around.
They’re saying that twenty-ten will be the pronunciation of the year 2010, but I personally like two thousand and ten.
The word of the decade was google. Like duh.
And in the next item, he mentions Australian words of the year. My fav two that are up for voting: slacktivism and brain fade.
Anyway, that’s all the Monday word fun today.
January 11th, 2010 Kathleen O'Reilly Posted in Wordtasm | 1 Comment »
