short takes

[Victor Steinbok]

Thanks, Ben. There were two things I was sure of--that this was recent
(5 years +/- 1) ant that you would have it covered. ;-)

     VS-)

On 3/29/2012 9:14 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> 15) I thought this has been commented on before, but I can't find the
>> relevant references. One current use of the verb "trend" and the
>> corresponding "trending" is to identify things that are becoming
>> "trendy", i.e., whose popularity is rising. Given that no example of the
>> verb in the OED is past 1901, there should be no surprise that this is
>> not covered.
>>
>> http://goo.gl/trccs
>>> 'Eat It, Don't Tweet It' Music Video Smackdown Is Trending
>> http://goo.gl/lgFVW
>>> Stockholm's Lunch Beat dance is trending
>> http://goo.gl/nVZMc
>> [@bbcapprentice]
>>> Tap Cosy is trending worldwide! Seems to have struck a chord with
>>> viewers... #theapprentice
> This use of "trend" as a verb was voted Most Likely to Succeed in the
> 2010 ADS WOTY proceedings. It was subsequently covered (along with
> other nominated words) in the Summer 2011 installment of "Among the
> New Words" in _American Speech_, with citations from 2009 on.
>
> http://www.americandialect.org/American-Dialect-Society-2010-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf
> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/86/2/192.citation
>
> --bgz

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