Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009

Tue Jan 20 20:10:31 UTC 2009

At 2:37 PM -0500 1/20/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>Can I vote for "google (v.)" and against "google (n.)"?
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>Joel

I don't see why not.  (What do "google, the verb" and "Joe the
Plumber" have in common?  Same middle name.)

LH

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>At 1/20/2009 10:31 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>nice list.  i agree that "google" and "blog" are top candidates, but
>>the following also look good to me:
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>>9-11, phish, red/blue states, podcast, sudoku, YouTube
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>>arnold
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