Word of the year…
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Following 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 related to below-par mortgages (and all the trouble in the US economy at the moment over mortgages). I’m not sure if it would be a word used much here though?
Words/phrases from the Word of the Year list that I particularly liked were:
- wrap rage (anger induced by the inability to open supermarket packaging - something my partner suffers from)
- Googleganger (someone other than you who’s listed when you Google your own name)
Ironically, waterboarding (a nasty form of ‘interrogation’, i.e. torture) made it onto both the misused etc list and onto the Word of the Year list. Guess it’s been something we’ve heard a lot about in the news, hmm?
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