SbaCL Word of the Year

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Tue Jan 2 20:16:34 UTC 2007


On 1/2/07, Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In case of interest, the Words of the Year have been declared at my blog:
>
> <http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/01/words-of-year-2006.html>
>
> The categories are:
> Most useful import from AmE to BrE
> Most useful import from BrE to AmE
> Best word coined by a reader of the blog

Commentary (esp. on the last category) here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003994.html


--Ben Zimmer

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