prefix of the year (POTY) - smart

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> Then there were those "smart bombs" so much in the news a few years
> back, which may have helped the metaphoricization process along.

See also Mark Peters' smart take on smart-words from 2010:

http://www.good.is/post/anatomy-of-a-smart-word/

--bgz

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