freegan

[Victor Steinbok]

A friend posted it as something new (of course, not for language
reasons) and the website was from 2008. Obviously, it's not in the "most
likely to succeed" category, as it is fairly rare and specialized.

If I knew the history going that far back, I would not have posted it...
Live and learn.

     VS-)

On 11/22/2010 12:18 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> It won in the "Most Creative" category in the 2003 WOTY voting.
>
> http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/2003_words_of_the_yea/
>
> At the time, Michael Quinion had recently entered it on World Wide Words:
>
> http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-fre2.htm
>
> See also the Wordspy entry, which has cites back to '97:
>
> http://www.wordspy.com/words/freegan.asp
>
> --bgz
>
>
> --
> Ben Zimmer
>

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