WOTY

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >
> > On 10/11/2011 7:35 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> > > Really? Why not just "occupy"--we now have "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS),
> > > "Occupy [city]", "Occupy Capitol", and, last, but not least
> > > (obviously), "Occupy Everything". And it's got perfect timing for WOTY
> > > voting.
> >
> > And we are now supposed to call them "occupy activists" or "occupy
> > protestors". I'm waiting for a Nunberg piece on the subject... (or
> > Zimmer ... or Zwicky--I don't want to discriminate, but they come later
> > in the alphabet ;-)  )
>
> While we wait for the definitive Nunbergian take, here's mine:
>
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3001/

More on "occupy" (including its checkered past and its WOTY prospects)
in my interview on NPR's "On the Media":

http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/oct/21/word-watch-occupy/

--bgz

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