New Words
Posted on January 28th, 2008
Striving to be somewhat of a locavore, I am often surfing away on the subject. Recently I stumbled across something that announced the New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2007 is “locavore”.
Who knew that they make up a word every year! Or rather they award the status of being a “word” to a word that has culturally become a word on its own. Well at least now we have the dictionary’s permission to use it. Not to mention the benefit to Scrabble players!
Going off on the “Word of the Year” tangent, I perused a bit to see what recent words won the right to be called a “word”.
This is just a sampling…
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