"Word of the year losing its meaning" (Mark Abley)

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sat Nov 27 13:22:05 UTC 2010


Mark Abley, author of _The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches From the Future
of English_ has a column in the Montreal Gazette complaining about the
various WOTYs:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Word+year+losing+meaning/3892783/story.html

--bgz

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