Random Note For WOTY #7

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 3 19:07:08 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> > And today's word from Paul McFedries' Wordspy site is "dronejacking,"
> > presumably an occupational hazard of delivery drones.
> >
> > http://www.wordspy.com/words/dronejacking.asp
> >
> I also like "sousveillance", with Paul's page linked at the above site:
> http://www.wordspy.com/words/sousveillance.asp
> Almost 10 years old, and yet I've never encountered it.

How quickly we forget! :->

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