Celebu-word-palooza

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Nov 14 20:54:01 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Mark Peters <markpeters33 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> http://www.good.is/?p=13385
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> This should've been WOTY at some point... We missed the boat!

Well, "celebu-" was in the running for "Most Useful" last year, ultimately
losing out to a more mundane prefix, "green-"...

http://www.americandialect.org/Word-of-the-Year_2007.pdf


--Ben Zimmer

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