Webster ’s New World College Dictionary announces its word-of-the-year candidates

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Tue Dec 2 15:25:14 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> The least odd choice, "overshare", has won.
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> http://newworldword.com/

I talk about "overshare"/"oversharing" in my latest Word Routes column:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1622/


--Ben Zimmer

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