more nominalized "fail"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

CNNfail:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/business/media/15cable.html

This comes two months after AmazonFail:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/13/blogs-and-twitter-coin-amazonfail/

Meanwhile, some carping about the nouning of "fail" here:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/top-7-conservative-new-media-fails-so-far-this-year.php#comment-3499602


--Ben Zimmer

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