"Twinterview"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Least likely to succeed, or already succeeded?  That's often a
> problem with this WOTY category, but the word in question,
> "twinterview", evidently means 'interview conducted via Twitter', and
> there are 57,900 raw g-hits for it.  It seems to me as though it
> *ought to* mean 'interview of (or by?) twins'.

I believe "twitterview" is a bit more common (which solves the "twin" problem).


--Ben Zimmer

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