OUP (UK) WOTY: credit crunch

[Marc Velasco]

This is fine, and a reasonable word round-up, except he misuses the term
'moral hazard' in his last, trying-to-impress paragraph.


On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Benjamin Zimmer
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> > "Credit crunch" has been chosen as Word of the Year by Susie Dent of
> > Oxford University Press (UK):
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> > http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/woty_uk/
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> > Dent's new book _Words of the Year_ also covers other terms related to
> > the credit crisis: [snip]
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> Some more "terminology of the bailout crisis" here (with a bonus
> reference to the "American Dialectic Society"):
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-randel/terminology-of-the-bailou_b_132005.html
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> --Ben Zimmer
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