Saturday 5th January 2008
Following up on my post about misused, overused and useless words the other day, I spotted an article on the BBC just now about the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year list (for 2007, obviously) - they chart words and phrases that become dominant in a particular year.
The word for 2007 is subprime, as [...]
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Saturday 5th January 2008
There’s an interesting post on the Guardian today entitled How fiction lost the plot - ostensibly, it’s about the prejudice that may or may not exist in book awards. However, some of the comments form a discussion of what publishers may or may not look for - and mention the worry that it’s the marketing department [...]
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