unfriend/ontvrienden

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:56 AM -0500 1/20/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 1/20/2010 01:45 AM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>>My latest Word Routes column is on "unfriend" and the Dutch equivalent
>>"ontvrienden": Words of 2009, or 1659?
>>
>>http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2145/
>
>Love it!
>
>I propose a new category for W'sOTY:  "Rip Van Winkle of the
>Year".  Or perhaps someone can suggest a better name.
>
>Joel

Indeed.  And we could retroactively award it to Retro-"not", our WOTY
for '92.  (As Jesse and Jon put it in their eponymous 1993 AmSp
piece, "A RECENT COINAGE (NOT!)")

LH

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