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Words of the Year

For those of you who are interested, I see that lexicographer

harmless_drudge has posted her thoughts about the 2008 Words of the Year, which are:

New Oxford American Dictionary: hypermiling
Webster's New World Dictionary: overshare
Merriam-Webster: bailout
American Dialect Society: bailout

My own, brief thought? Bailout is too obvious a choice. I'd go with Blagojevich. :-)

Tags: language

Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 at 08:52 am | Link | Leave a comment | 7 comments | Share

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joecoustic

I'd go with Blagojevich. :-)

I'd love to see it used in a sentence.... :)

Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 03:05 pm (UTC) | Link | Thread | Reply

hildebabble

"Man, I totally Blagojeviched that job interview."

Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 03:46 pm (UTC) | Link | Parent | Thread | Reply

shsilver

This is blagojeviching golden. You don't blagojeviching give something like this to the first blagojevicher who comes along. You have to see what the blagojeviching market will bear. And if noone will blagojeviching pony up what I want, I'll blagojeviching appoint myself.

Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 03:50 pm (UTC) | Link | Parent | Thread | Reply

kuroshii

speaking as a chicagoan/illini

the actual made-up verb used around here is simply "to blago." (BLAY-go, even though his name is shortened to BLAH-go when talking about him--or such has been my observation)

as in, we've been blagoed.

Edited at 2009-01-14 05:30 pm (UTC)

Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 04:18 pm (UTC) | Link | Thread | Reply

jenwrites

Nah, too hard to spell.

Posted on Jan. 14th, 2009 05:55 pm (UTC) | Link | Thread | Reply