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 social media. […]
Don’t Snigger at Sniglets
Words can be a fun pursuit, starting with the tracking of their creation and then tracing their eventual absorption into and evolution within the language.
The term neologism, a term signifying new words however odd their origin and unexpected their construction, was coined back in 1803. That was the year the first public library opened in […]
