OAD WOTY; Gawker on "squick"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

"Podcast" is the Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year, in
case you haven't heard...

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051205/nym208.html

On OUPblog, Erin McKean gives a run-down of the runners-up:

http://blog.oup.com/oupblog/2005/12/podcasting_is_t.html

The blog entry also links to Gawker, which reproduces an email
exchange between the OAD and a reader about the revolting origins of
one runner-up, "squick":

http://www.gawker.com/news/email/unsurprisingly-lexicographers-give-good-email-141870.php


--Ben Zimmer