SbaCL words of the year

[Lynne Murphy]

The Separated by a Common Language American-to-British Word of the Year is
'shellacking'.

The British-to-American Word of the Year was 'ginger' (in the 'red hair'
sense). This was not so much 'of this year' as representing a few years'
build-up.

To read more:
<http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/12/words-of-year-2010.html>

I wish you all the best for the ADS WotY vote!

Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Director of English Language and Linguistics
School of English
Arts B348
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com

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