Macquarie WOTY candidates

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Thu Jan 10 01:00:15 UTC 2008


Australia's Macquarie Dictionary is holding its annual Word of the
Year voting. They've got seventeen categories with five candidates in
each. Definitions can be found on the website.

http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/anonymous@F527489525/-/p/dict/WOTY07/index.html

Business
advergaming
astrovertisement
credit card tart
glass cliff
infomania

Carbon Terms
carbon capture
carbon footprint
carbon market
carbon neutrality
carbon sequestration

Colloquialisms
couply
floordrobe
lady garden
man flu
salad dodger

Eating and Drinking
artisan food
ponzu
shroom
tart fuel
toddler milk

The Environment
climate canary
climate sceptic
food mile
green shoe brigade
toad juice

Fashion
arse antlers
butt bra
manscaping
tanorexia
tube dress

General Interest
dumpster diving
homesharing
orthorexia nervosa
password fatigue
read dating

Health
boomeritis
germ phobia
globesity
incidental exercise
living bandage

Media
citizen journalism
fauxtography
lamestream
lifecasting
splog

Music
baile funk
electronica
nerdcore
poptronica
silent disco

Online
cyber cheating
flog
griefing
microblog
web 2.0

Politics
Chindia
ghost prisoner
Great Firewall of China
Helengrad
retail politics

Social Scene
digital native
happy-clappy
kipper
slummy mummy
traffic light party

Specialist Terms
attentional blink
brane
event tree
facial mapping
cosmic inflaton

Sport
cyberathlete
equine influenza
exergaming
grapple tackle
microgrom

Technology
bloatware
data smog
ecotechnology
pod slurping
technological singularity

Travel
barefoot luxury
health tourism
love mile
slow travel
voluntourism

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