Fwd: My vote for word of the year: unfriend

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Wed Sep 24 13:15:02 UTC 2008


a WOTY suggestion.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Stewart Haddock <SHaddock at web.com>
> Date: September 23, 2008 8:18:35 AM PDT
> To: "zwicky at csli.stanford.edu" <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> Subject: My vote for word of the year:  unfriend
>
> Hello,
>
> I just read your post about the LOL cats on Karen Baumer’s Facebook  
> page and it got me thinking about the word ‘unfriend’.   I do not  
> know how one chooses the word of the year, but ‘unfriend’ is one  
> that I have used a lot this year and I never seemed to use before.
>
> Stewart

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