How New M ay/Might the Word of the Year Not Be?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Concerning the criterion of "newness", I consulted this year's organizer of
the ADS Words of the Year spectacular; he replies as below:

In a message dated 1/28/02 11:01:55 AM, wglowka at mail.gcsu.edu writes:

I tried to limit my nominations to words that were fairly new or had new
meanings, but things came from the floor that were old.  Our out is always
"newly prominent."  "Daisy cutter" really is from the sixties.

Wayne Glowka