Words in the news

[Michael Quinion]

There's an interesting article about online neologisms in New Scientist
today, only available online to subscribers, but a report based on it also
appears in today's Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=HI0EEJ0TYGUYRQFIQMGC
FGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/30/sciword130.xml

which mentions Grant Barrett, Ben Zimmer and Mark Peters.


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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
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