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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This has been “Word of the Year” week. First, The New Oxford American Dictionary 2009 “Word of the Year” was announced. The winning word? Unfriend. Example: Steve unfriended Julie on Facebook. Our post also includes other words that Oxford University Press was considering. Today, Merriam-Webster released their 2009 Word of the Year list. And the winner [...]
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ben Stein writes on “Four lessons from the recession” in (19 November) in Fortune HERE which includes this observation: “ And another little note ... my much-missed father used to tell me with great approval Adam Smith's famous quote regarding prophecies of doom for America, "there is a lot of ruin in a nation ." Comment Another example of a famous quotation from Adam Smith...
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Filed under: Internet , Humor Did you even know that there was a New Oxford American Dictionary? I didn't. But with their recent addition of 'unfriend' to the American language, that might soon change. Maybe this was their way of leaving the realm of obscurity... and into hilarity! "It has both currency and potential longevity," says Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford's...
Mizozo (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
What word best sums up 2009? How about the word unfriend, thats the new Oxford American Dictionarys 2009 word of the year. Unfriend means, of course, to remove someone as a friend on a social networking web site such as Facebook. Each year, Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses the word that best reflects the mood of the year. ( KCAL ) Other terms considered...
Wishydig (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Oxford University Press has chosen unfriend as its word of the year for 2009. To unfriend is "To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook." Christine Lindberg explains that unfriend assumes a verb sense of “friend” that is really not used (at least not since maybe the 17th century!) Altho a search for the verb forms, friended and friending...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
When the good folks at the New Oxford Dictionary named "unfriend" its word of the year earlier this week, they likely had no idea they'd initiated the fiercest lexicographical debate since the Great McJob Controversy of 2003 . That's because many people — including everyone at Daily Intel — had been using the term "defriend" to refer to the act of removing one's friend...
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Sign of the times Each year Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year. Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg says unfriend has "real lex appeal." Finalists for 2009 also included netbook, which is a small laptop, and sexting, which is sending sexually explicit texts and pictures by cell phone. Unfriend...
About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Oxford University Press announced the New Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year (WOTY) for 2009: unfriend - verb - To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, "Lucius made an obnoxious comment on my Facebook wall so I decided to unfriend him." In 2008, the Word of the Year was hypermiling , and in 2007, locovore . Other WOTY front-runners...
Gaj-It.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The English lexicon has officially grown by one with Oxford University Press nominating “unfriend” as the 2009 word of the year. Your mum may bemoan the effects that SMS messages and 140-character Tweets are having on your everyday ability to communicate properly, but geek speak has now been ratified. OUP has defined … [visit site to read [...] Unfriend is 2009 Word of the Year:...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
"Unfriend" named word of 2009 Tue Nov 17 NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – "Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent. Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking site such as Facebook. "It has both currency and potential...
absolut ginger (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Found this article here and it had me in stitches. ‘Unfriend’ is New Oxford American word of the year Tue, Nov 17, 2009 WASHINGTON – The New Oxford American Dictionary named “unfriend” – as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook – its word of the year on Monday. Oxford University Press USA, [...]
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Earlier this week Oxford University Press declared "unfriend" its word of the year . This got me thinking... now that we are entering an era of media reforestation what common phrases could soon be history? Here's 10 that I came up with. You may disagree but I believe all of these have faded or will be gone soon. (All images are from Flickr via Creative Commons and are credited.) Permalink...
Sustainability, Equity, Development (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Everyone knows Sarah Palin's book came out today, and Walmart and Amazon are already selling it for 50% off, but wait, there's more! For $8.10 at Amazon, you can buy The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book . Actually you can't, for while there are ample copies of Palin's book, the coloring book is sold out . Weeks ago Newt Gingrich warned that NY CD-23 style clashes will re-elect Obama and...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Yesterday, the Oxford University Press announced its 2009 Word of the Year: "unfriend."
ITProPortal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
In what can be termed as a testimony of the increasing influence of social networking over the contemporary world, the highly venerable Oxford University Press has selected “unfriend” as the word of the year 2009.
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