SbaCL Word of the Year

[Scot LaFaive]

Glad to see "wanker" made it. One of my top 5 favorite British words.
Scot


>From: Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
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>Subject: SbaCL Word of the Year
>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 00:54:51 -0500
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>Poster:       Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
>Subject:      SbaCL Word of the Year
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>In case of interest, the Words of the Year have been declared at my blog:
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><http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/01/words-of-year-2006.html>
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>The categories are:
>Most useful import from AmE to BrE
>Most useful import from BrE to AmE
>Best word coined by a reader of the blog
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>Happy New Year, everyone.
>
>Lynne
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>Dr M Lynne Murphy
>Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
>Linguistics and English Language
>Arts B135
>University of Sussex
>Brighton BN1 9QN
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>phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
>http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
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