candidate word of the year - "decider"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 5/25/07, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Apparently, George Bush said "I'm the decider" recently.

No, not recently -- he said it on April 18, 2006. "Decider" was a
runner-up in two categories in the 2006 WOTY voting (Most Likely To
Succeed and Most Unnecessary, oddly enough).

http://www.americandialect.org/Word-of-the-Year_2006.pdf


--Ben Zimmer

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