wordspy
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Apologies for the beer-related tweet (I'd meant to send it to my personal tweetstream.) Now you know what I do when I'm not neologizing!
7:51 AM Dec 23rd
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Rogue Brewery's Hazelnut Brown Nectar: so good you won't want to share, but you will anyway.
7:44 AM Dec 23rd
from Hahlo
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@ Thanks for passing along the terms "tanning tax" and "botax". I'll have to research them for Word Spy.
2:06 PM Dec 22nd
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"Yesterday's neologisms, like yesterday's jargon, are often today's essential vocabulary." -Marjorie Garber
1:05 PM Dec 22nd
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wheredunit n. A murder mystery or detective story where the location of a crime plays a central role.
10:50 AM Dec 22nd
from API
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frugal fatigue n. Mental exhaustion caused by constant frugality during hard economic times.
6:56 AM Dec 17th
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.@ "Chirpitude" is very nice, but my neological antennae are aflutter thanks to "brain roughage":
7:01 PM Dec 16th
from Seesmic
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nontroversy n. A false or non-existent controversy.
6:51 PM Dec 16th
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RT @: Linguist Geoff Nunberg discusses words of the decade on @:
3:12 PM Dec 16th
from web
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.@ Agree that "nontroversy" is nicer, but it doesn't convey that sense of a false controversy being *manufactured* by special interests
2:10 PM Dec 16th
from web
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manufactroversy n. A non-existent controversy manufactured by ideologues or interest groups.
7:54 AM Dec 16th
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RT @: New blog post: Words of the year 2009, from "app" to "zombie." (via @)
3:44 PM Dec 15th
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foodoir n. A memoir that includes recipes or that is focused on food, meals, or cooking.
12:45 PM Dec 15th
from API
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Check out Odd Products, a new blog that's almost too much fun: (Disclaimer: the OP author is my lovely & talented wife)
6:59 AM Dec 15th
from TweetDeck
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warmist n. A person who believes that the current global warming trend is the result of man-made factors.
6:53 AM Dec 11th
from API
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meformer n. A social network user whose posts focus on the user's activities, thoughts,
7:30 AM Dec 10th
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@ I'll definitely look into "email apnea" (great phrase). At least with this one I'll be able to say for sure who coined it!
11:27 AM Dec 9th
from Seesmic
in reply to LindaStone
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.@ Nope, I haven't got "lawyer up" on Word Spy, mostly because it's already in many dictionaries. It is newish, tho (c 1995).
11:13 AM Dec 9th
from TweetDeck
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dysrationalia n. The tendency to think or act irrationally, despite having sufficient intelligence.
7:49 AM Dec 9th
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deleb n. A dead celebrity, particularly one used to endorse products.
8:17 AM Dec 8th
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