Tag: WORD OF THE YEAR

'Overshare,' 'w00t,' 'unfriend,' 'tweet': All have been honored, at some point, by an organization as "words of the year." For 2010, the American Dialect Society chose yet another tech term: 'app.' The shorthand for 'application' narrowly beat out the onomatopoeic 'nom, nom, nom,' which we think would have been much more fun to hear a bunch of stuffy linguists have to repeat on news clips. ...

After a year that saw so much action and chaos on the political, economic, and pop cultural fronts, the New Oxford American Dictionary has decided that 2009's vaunted Word of the Year should be firmly planted in the new social media lexicon. The envelope, please... That's right, ladies and gentlemen, "unfriend" is your 2009 Word of the Year (cue applause). The Oxford Dictionary defines this ...