[Ads-l] hate-watch

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 22 18:21:31 UTC 2016


"Hate-watching" was in the running in the Most Useful category in the 2012
ADS WOTY voting.

http://www.americandialect.org/hashtag-2012

Covered in the Summer 2013 installment of "Among the New Words" (AmSp
88.2), with cites back to 2005.

http://bit.ly/ATNW88-2

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> CNN guy:
>
> Are people hate-watching the election the same way I hate-watch reality
> shows?
>
> Watch because you love to hate.
>
>
>

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