Archive for December, 2009
Uncertain About Word-of-the-Year
Last month, the Oxford American Dictionary (Oxford American? How’s that for an oxymoron?) picked the word ‘unfriend’ as the Word-of-the-Year. According to the dictionary, the verb unfriend means to “remove someone as a friend on a social networking site such as Facebook”. This is a most unfortunate word, coming out of the unlovely side of [...]
