Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (was Re: photo-bomb)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> Yeah, but you've got HDAS and I don't have AS.
>
> You do have it.
>
> Don't you?

But of course. It has a treasured place on my shelves. And I cite it
here frequently.

But just as no home should be without HDAS, I'd also hope that
ADS-Lers would work out some sort of access to AmSp, whether through
an individual or university subscription.

> (But I did check the ADS Archives.)

Perhaps it would make sense for me to post the headwords of ATNW
entries when AmSp is published every quarter, so that they show up in
an archive search. For starters:

"Among the New Words," AmSp, Winter 2011, pp. 454-479
Benjamin Zimmer and Charles E. Carson
http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/86/4/454.citation
special "Internet meme" edition:
Advice Animal, auto-tune, banhammer, bubbling, cinemagraph, copypasta,
creepypasta, (herp) derp, double rainbow, Droste effect, escalator
spinning, exploitable, facebomb, facepalm, headdesk, honey badger,
hover hand, image macro, lulz, O RLY, photobomb, rickroll, supercut,
Swede, Teabonics, tl;dr.


--bgz

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