previvor

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>
> Thanks to Jon for posting about previvor, an interesting word that I
> had never heard before.
>
> Larry Horn posted to the ADS list in 2007 and suggested previvor as a
> WOTY candidate.
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0709C&L=ADS-L&P=R3750

Though "previvor" didn't make a ripple in the '07 ADS WOTY voting, I
included it as a runner-up for the New Oxford American Dictionary's
WOTY:

http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/locavore/

--bgz


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