The word of the year for 2007 is English?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Dec 17 02:00:09 UTC 2007


At 1:43 AM +0000 12/17/07, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>The following were all new to me this year. Together they seem to
>say a lot about life in America in the first decade of the century:
>
>Tourism suicide
>Concierge medicine
>Embedded giving.
>
They would say more to me if I knew what they were.  (I guess that
means they're desirably opaque.)  Can we have brief definitions?

LH

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