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Words of the Year 1990 - 2005

Here are the final vote tallies for the Words of the Year from the American Dialect Society at its annual conference, held this year in Boston. These are the words which most colored the nation’s lexicon, or otherwise dominated the national discourse.
Note that voting tallies for each category will vary in their totals, for not all attendees voted in all categories. Votes were held in a series of run-offs until a clear winner was recognized. Votes are listed according to voting rounds, first-second-third.

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Word of the Year
WINNER truthiness | Katrina | podcast | intelligent design | refugee | Cruiselex | Heck of a job | brown-out | disas=ter industrial complex
Most Useful
WINNER podcast | lifehack | truthiness | patent troll
Most Creative
WINNER pinosaur | muffin top | flee-ancée Most Unnecessary
WINNER K Fed | man date | pope-squatting | reverse logistics
Most Outrageous
WINNER crotchfruit | Whizzinator | Bumper Nutz | Ex-Lax option | intelligent design
Most Euphemistic
WINNER internal nutrition | holistic practitioner | VBIED | holiday tree | extraordinary rendition | man date
Best Tom-Cruise-Related Word: Cruiselex
WINNER jump the couch | TomKat | Cruisazy
Most Likely to Succeed
WINNER sudoku | podcast | Cyber Monday | folksonomy
Least Likely to Succeed
WINNER pope-squatting | metrospiritual | Cruiselex | Brangelina | GSAVE

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• Winner metrosexua: noun, a fashion-conscious heterosexual male, or, as coiner Mark Simpson put it, a man who “has clearly taken himself as his own love object.” 20-36-35l
• pre-emptive self-defens: noun, an attack before a possible attack.18-10e
• embe: verb, to place a journalist with troops or a political campaign. Noun, a journalist who is so placed. 7d
• zhuzh, tjuz: verb, to plump up, fluff up or primp. 4s
• governator, gropenator, gropenführe: noun, the current Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. 3r
• weapons of mass deceptio: plural noun, the hunt for weapons of mass destruction as a pretext for war. 10n
• weapons o: formative, including weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass distraction. 3f
• SAR: acronym for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. This was a surprise entry after the first elimination round,Sunorthodoxly nominated by one of our members from China. (no first round)-24-31
• Most Useful: word or phrase which most fills a need for a new word
• Winner flexitarian: noun, a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat. 31-41
• SARS: 12-9
• -shoring: formative, indicating the location of jobs or businesses, including offshoring, moving businesses or jobs out of the country; rightshoring, returning them to the US; and nearshoring, moving them to Canada. 3
• embed: 8
• ass-hat: noun, a thoughtless or stupid person. 3
• text: verb, to send a text message. 11-24
• Most Creative
• Winner freegan: noun, person who eats only what they can get for free. 18-23-45
• tanorexia: noun, the condition of being addicted to tanning. 0
• governator, gropenator, gropenführer: 20-27-32
• manscaping: noun, male body-shaving. 22-22
• tofurkey: noun, a faux turkey crafted from tofu. Also a trade name. 1
• metrosexual: 12
• Most Unnecessary: word for phrase for which we already have a perfectly good word, or which fills a need no one has.
• Winner freedom: noun, replacing “French” in phrases or compound nouns such as French fries, French kiss, and French tickler. 54
• Bennifer: noun, the couple of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. 18
• Most Outrageous: word or phrase most likely to cause complaint.
• Winner cliterati: collective noun, feminist or woman-oriented writers or opinion-leaders. 28-38
• torture lite: noun phrase, torture short of bodily harm. 14
• useful idiot: noun phrase, a human shield for the enemy. 6
• DILF: abbreviation for Dad I’d Like to F..., patterned after MILF. 21-33
• Most Euphemistic: word or phrase which least says what it means to.
• Winner pre-emptive self-defense: noun phrase, an attack made before a possible attack. 45
• population reduction: noun phrase, a combat assignment. 4
• transfer tube: compound noun, a body bag. 11
• extraordinary rendition: noun phrase, the deportation to a country that will receive a person unkindly, such as with torture. 5
• Most Likely to Succeed: word or phrase most likely to be here next year.
• Winner SARS: 40
• zhuzh, tjuzs: 8
• metrosexual: 14
• -lite: combining form, as in patriotism lite, torture lite, Bush lite, a moderate Democrat. 9
• Least Likely to Succeed: word or phrase least likely to be here next year.
• Winner tomacco: noun, a hybrid of tomato and tobacco, which happens to be poisonous. 54
• Lib Radio: noun phrase, liberal talk radio. 7
• zeta-jones: verb, to scarf or eat ravenously. 10
• recockulous ridiculous 0
• Best Revival: word or phrase brought back from the past.
• Winner spider hole: compound noun, an expertly camouflaged hole used by soldiers from which they can strike. This term goes at least back to 1941. 52
• downer sick cow 2
• frog-marching: noun, walking awkwardly in restraints while under arrest. 10
• Collyer: noun, in New York City, a person trapped under their own collected debris in their apartment. 4

• "google" (verb) - to search the Web using the search engine Google for information on a person or thing: 11 votes.
• "blog" - from weblog, a website of personal events, comments, and links: 6 votes.
• "Amber alert" - public announcement of a missing child: 4 votes.
• "regime change" - forced change in leadership: 3 votes.

• 1. Most Outrageous: assoline Methane used as a fuel
• 2. Most Euphemistic: daisy cutter Bomb used by US Air Force
• 3. Most Likely to Succeed: 9-11 Terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
• 4. Most Useful: A Tie, facial profiling Videotaping a crowd to identify criminals and terrorists second-hand speech Overheard cell-phone conversation
• 5. Most Creative: shuicide bomber Terrorist with bomb in shoes
• 6. Most Unnecessary: impeachment nostalgia Longing for the superficial news of the Clinton era
• 8. Most Inspirational: Let’s roll! Let us take action! (words of Todd Beamer)
• 9. Word of the Year 9-11 (and its equivalents)

• assoline Methane used as a fuel (23 first vote; 41 second vote)
• burka blue Color of the head-to-toe garment worn by some Afghan women (15)
• cuddle puddle Pile of Ecstacy users on the floor (3)

• women of cover Muslim women who wear traditional dress (Bushism) (9)
• daisy cutter Bomb used by US Air Force (45)
• sneakers-up Belly-up (of a dot-com) (1)

• 9-11 Terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 (50)
• pop-under Internet ad appearing under main browser window (3)
• weaponize Adapt for use as a weapon (anthrax, shoes, etc.) (9)

• facial profiling Videotaping a crowd to identify criminals and terrorists (12-17-29—first, second, and third votes)
• linguistic profiling Using dialect to identify someone’s race, region, social class (10-15—first and second votes)
• annoyicon Logo in bottom corner of a television screen (3)
• weapons-grade Potent (like weapons-grade salsa) (4)
• theoterrorism Attacks on civilians for a religious purpose (9-9—first and second votes)
• overconnectedness Being connected everywhere all the time (3)
• table (v) Staff an informational table (1)
• debris surge, debris storm Spread of debris from collapsing building (1)
• second-hand speech Overheard cell-phone conversation (10-14-28—first, second, and third votes—tie declared)

• shuicide bomber Terrorist with bomb in shoes (26)
• assoline (1)
• so Sept. 10 Petty; self-absorbed; oblivious to impending danger (5)
• Netwallah Web site administrator (4)
• orthorexia nervosa Obsession with eating the right foods (11)

• "the terrorists will have already won" (15-15—first and second votes)
• impeachment nostalgia Longing for the superficial news of the Clinton era (21-27—first and second votes)
• EC Emotionally correct (15-15—first and second votes)
• desk rage Fit thrown in the office (2)

• interruptible (n) Energy customer allowing suspensions of service (0)
• dot-orging Changing employment from a dot-com to a dot-org (4)

• Let’s roll! Let us take action! (no real vote tallied)

• 9-11 and equivalents (29)
• impeachment nostalgia (0)
• burka (10)
• Let’s roll! (1)
• theoterrorism (4)
• misunderestimate (4)
• homeland (5)

"e-" has been around in "e-mail" for nearly two decades, but it has recently multiplied its lexical connections with business in terms like "e-business", "e-commerce", and "e-tailing" (retailing on the Internet). A week after the ADS vote, on Jan. 15, the mantric power of "e-" was exemplified in a Dilbert cartoon where two venture capitalists say, “You’ll get no more funding unless you mutter empty Internet words that make us swoon,” and "e-commerce" knocks them over.

The significance of sexual relations was also reinforced about a week after the ADS vote, on Jan. 16, when the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association was fired for publishing an article whose subject was the meaning of sex as understood by college students.

Before the vote for the Word of the Year, the assembly chose winners in eight categories. Votes were by show of hand and are approximate.

1. Most Useful: e- 35 votes. Others: senior moment (11) momentary lapse of memory due to age; multislacking (5) playing at the computer when one should be working; open source (2) source code of software programs available to all.

3. Most Likely to Succeed: e- 25 votes. Others: rage as in road rage, etc. (18); moment as in senior moment, Kodak moment (12).

4. Least Likely to Succeed: compfusion (26) confusion over computers. Others: explornography (22) tourism in exotic and dangerous places; Ruth- Aaron pair (4) two consecutive numbers the sum of whose prime factors is equal; jiggy (2) as in get jiggy, be active.

5. Most Outrageous: Ejaculation Proclamation (41) the President’s confession. Others: wrong-site surgery (7) surgery on the wrong side of the body; Lovegety (5) electronic transceiver of love receptiveness.

6. Most Original: multislacking (30). Others: angst bunny (20) young woman with black clothes and lots of body piercing; Preslyterianism (4) cult of Elvis Presley in the South; bililoquy (1) conversation with one’s alter ego.

7. Most Euphemistic: senior moment (22). Others: symmetry failure (16) another name for wrong-site surgery; controlled flight into terrain (6) airplane crash with a good pilot and good plane; demographic fatigue (6) problems caused by overpopulation; sexual relations (5).

8. Brand new (coined during the year, not previously attested): -agra or -gra (26) suffix denoting substance prompting men to perform unusually, as in Directra that causes men to ask for directions, from the drug name Viagra. Others: PPD (16) or politics of personal destruction; MAD (14) or millennial anxiety disorder, distress at the end of the millennium; dot (6) to strike someone with light from a laser pointer.

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• SURREAL - One part opiate of the masses, 13 parts overuse. Oddly, news anchor and television small talk is becoming more surreal. "Dreams are surreal, not daily adjectives." - Tracy from Murray, Ky.
• HUNKER DOWN - To brace oneself, in anticipation of media onslaught. Trotted out in reports about everything from politics to hurricanes. "I have a hankering to ban all of this hunkering." - Kate Rabe Forgach, Fort Collins, Colo.
• PERSON OF INTEREST - Found within the context of legal commentary, but seldom encountered at cocktail parties. "People with guns want to talk with you." - Melissa Carroll from Greensboro, NC. "Does this mean the rest of us are too boring to deal with?" - Patricia Johnson from Mechanicsville, Va.
• COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS - A five-dollar phrase on a nickel-errand. Value-added into many higher education mission statements. "Not to be confused with 'school.'" - Jim Howard from Mishawa, Ind.
• UP OR DOWN VOTE - A casualty of today's partisanship. No discussion on this one; the committee just tossed a coin. "I see a bright future for ex-senators as elevator operators." - Allan Dregseth, Fargo, ND.
• BREAKING NEWS - Once it stopped presses. Now it's a lower-intestinal condition brought about by eating dinner during newscasts. "Now they have to interrupt my supper to tell me that Katie Holmes is pregnant." - Michael Raczko, Swanton, Ohio.
• DESIGNER BREED - Many nominators consider this a bastardization of dog breeding. It may be a good line to use on angry neighbors when an un-neutered dog escapes. "When you mate a miniature schnauzer to a toy poodle, it's not a 'Schnoodle,' it's a mongrel." - George Bullerjahn, Bowling Green, Ohio.
• FEMA - Dedicated to the memory of a great federal agency consigned to the ash heap of parody. "If they don't do anything, we don't need their acronym." - Josh Hamilton, Tucson, Ariz.
• FIRST-TIME CALLER - Preamble often heard on talk radio. "I am serious in asking: who in any universe gives a care?" - Miguel McCormick, Orlando, Fla.
• PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO YOU! - Marketing catch phrase that became a lost-leader long ago. "Read: Pass the markup along to you." - C. W. Estes, Roanoke, Tex.
• 97% FAT FREE - Adventures in delusion. "Still has 3% fat . . . accept it." - Andrew Clucas, Canberra, Australia.
• AN ACCIDENT THAT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN - Best-laid mayhem. "This means some accidents need to happen, for whatever reason, I can't figure." - Thomas Price, Orlando, Fla.
• JUNK SCIENCE - Banished from the Marketplace of Ideas. "It's not scientists who are using this phrase so much as the people who
• practice junk politics." - Ron LaLonde, Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada.
• GIT-ER-DONE - (Any of its variations) It's overdone. "There's no escaping it. It's everywhere, from TV to T-shirts," says Amanda Tikkanen of LaGrange, Ind. "Please tell me when we're done with this one."
• DAWG - No designer breed here. Someone should wash out this Spot. "Even parents are starting to use it!" - complains Mrs. Swartz's Fifth Grade Class in Church Road, Va. "This is species confusion." - Rob Bowers, Santa Clara, Calif. "Don't call me 'dawg'! I'm not your pet!" - Michael Swartz, Albuquerque, NM.
• TALKING POINTS - Cover your ears! "Topics which will please those you want to impress." - Michele Mooney, Van Nuys, Calif. Joe Wonsetler of Swanton, Ohio, believes the phrase was created after PR staffers stopped attending seminars on how to put a positive 'spin' on their press releases.
• HOLIDAY TREE - Many salvoes were fired during this past season's "war on Christmas." At the risk of jumping into the breach, the committee feels that "Holiday tree" is a silly name for what most folks hold as a Christmas tree, no matter your preference of religion. Thank goodness we all agree on the first day of winter.

Lake Superior State University 2007 List of Banished Words

• GITMO -- The US military's shorthand for a base in Cuba drives a wedge wider than a split infinitive.
• COMBINED CELEBRITY NAMES -- Celebrity duos of yore -- BogCall (Bogart and Bacall), Lardy (Laurel and Hardy), and CheeChong (Cheech and Chong) -- just got lucky.
• AWESOME -- Given a one-year moratorium in 1984, when the Unicorn Hunters banished it "during which it is to be rehabilitated until it means 'fear mingled with admiration or reverence; a feeling produced by something majestic." Many write to tell us there's no hope and it's time for "the full banishment."
• GONE/WENT MISSING -- "It makes 'missing' sound like a place you can visit, such as the Poconos. Is the person missing, or not? She went there but maybe she came back. 'Is
• missing' or 'was missing' would serve us better." -- Robin Dennis, Flower Mound, Texas.
• PWN or PWNED -- Thr styff of lemgendz: Gamer defeats gamer, types in "I pwn you" rather than I OWN you.
• NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS -- Heard in movie advertisements. Where can we see that, again?
• WE'RE PREGNANT -- Grounded for nine months.
• UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN -- "If they haven't followed the law to get here, they are by definition 'illegal.' It's like saying a drug dealer is an 'undocumented pharmacist.'" -- John Varga, Westfield, New Jersey.
• ARMED ROBBERY/DRUG DEAL GONE BAD -- From the news reports. What degree of "bad" don't we understand? Larry Lillehammer of Bonney Lake, Washington, asks, "After it stopped going well and good?"
• TRUTHINESS - "This word, popularized by The Colbert Report and exalted by the American Dialectic Society's Word of the Year in 2005 has been used up. What used to ring true is getting all the truth wrung out of it." -- Joe Grimm, Detroit, Michigan.
• ASK YOUR DOCTOR -- The chewable vitamin morphine of marketing.
• CHIPOTLE - Smoked dry over medium heat.
• i-ANYTHING -- 'e-Anything' made the list in 2000. Geoff Steinhart of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, says tech companies everywhere have picked this apple to the core. "Turn on…tune in…and drop out."
• SEARCH -- Quasi-anachronism. Placed on one-year moratorium.
• HEALTHY FOOD -- Point of view is everything.
• BOASTS -- See classified advertisements for houses, says Morris Conklin of Lisboa, Portugal, as in "master bedroom boasts his-and-her fireplaces -- never 'bathroom apologizes for cracked linoleum,' or 'kitchen laments pathetic placement of electrical outlets.'"

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Blog - No. 1 word of the year 2004 - TOP 10 WORDS OF 2004

The top 10 words of the year based on searches of Merriam-Webster Web sites.

• 1. blog
• 2. incumbent
• 3. electoral
• 4. insurgent
• 5. hurricane
• 6. cicada
• 7. peloton
• 8. partisan
• 9. sovereignty
• 10. defenestration

Source: Merriam-Webster

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Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2008

The most looked-up words in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2008 reflect the nation’s preoccupation with discussions surrounding the Presidential campaign.
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Google - "Word of the Year"

google - Zeitgeist bei Google - Wörter des Jahres - Suchbegriffe des Jahres

Zeitgeist Explained...
zeit·geist | Pronunciation: "tsIt-gIst", "zIt" | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

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The Top Words of 2009

The Top Words of 2009

• 2. Obama - The word stem transforms into scores of new words like ObamaCare
• 3. H1N1 - The formal (and politically correct) name for Swine Flu
• 4. Stimulus - The $800 billion aid package meant to help mend the US economy
• 5. Vampire - Vampires are very much en vogue, now the symbol of unrequited love
• 6. 2.0 - The 2.0 suffix is attached to the next generation of everything
• 7. Deficit - Lessons from history are dire warnings here
• 8. Hadron - Ephemeral particles subject to collision in the Large Hadron Collider
• 9. Healthcare - The direction of which is the subject of intense debate in the US
• 10. Transparency - Elusive goal for which many 21st c. governments are striving
• 11. Outrage - In response to large bonuses handed out to ‘bailed-out’ companies
• 12. Bonus - The incentive pay packages that came to symbolize greed and excess
• 13. Unemployed - And underemployed amount to close to 20% of US workforce
• 14. Foreclosure - Forced eviction for not keeping up with the mortgage payments
• 15. Cartel - In Mexico, at the center of the battle over drug trafficking

The Top Phrases of 2009

• 1. King of Pop -Elvis was ‘The King;’ MJ had to settle for ‘King of Pop’
• 2. Obama-mania - One of the scores of words from the Obama-word stem
• 3. Climate Change - Considered politically neutral compared to global warming
• 4. Swine Flu - Popular name for the illness caused by the H1N1 virus
• 5. Too Large to Fail - Institutions that are deemed necessary for financial stability
• 7. Public Option - The ability to buy health insurance from a government entity
• 8. Jai Ho! - A Hindi shout of joy or accomplishment
• 9. Mayan Calendar - Consists of various ‘cycles,’ one of which ends on 12/21/2012
• 10. God Particle - The hadron, believed to hold the secrets of the Big Bang

The Top Names of 2009

• 1. Barack Obama - It was Obama’s year, though MJ nearly eclipsed in the end
• 2. Michael Jackson - Eclipses Obama on internet though lags in traditional media
• 3. Mobama - Mrs. Obama, sometimes as a fashion Icon
• 4. Large Hadron Collider - The Trillion dollar ‘aton smasher’ buried outside Geneva
• 5. Neda Agha Sultan - Iranian woman killed in the post-election demonstrations
• 6. Nancy Pelosi -The Democratic Speaker of the US House
• 7. M. Ahmadinejad - The president of Iran, once again
• 8. Hamid Karzai - The winner of Afghanistan’s disputed election
• 9. Rahm Emmanuel - Bringing ‘Chicago-style politics’ to the Administration
• 10. Sonia Sotomayor - The first Hispanic woman on the US Supreme Court

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Banished Words 1976-2004

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Word of the Year

Truthiness (W3)

Truthiness begins to be used for real
From the January 16 Chicago Tribune, an unsigned editorial. - Allan Metcalf

The truthiness hurts

January 16, 2006

The American Dialect Society has crowned "truthiness" its word of the year for 2005, an achievement that makes us think the word of the moment must be "serendipity."
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"Truthiness" is the invention of Stephen Colbert, host of the nightly Colbert Report (that's Col-bear Re-pore, for the unrefined) on Comedy Central. The show is a dead-on parody of smug and self-absorbed cable news commentators whose opinions aren't always constrained by facts.

Colbert used the word "truthiness" to describe an impression of truth not necessarily constrained by those pesky little facts, which can just get in the way.

The more formal definition, provided by the American Dialect Society: "the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts."
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Copyright (c) 2006, Chicago Tribune

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Banished Word - Year

• <3 - 2009
• ______ In Color - 2003
• ______ On Steroids - 2014
• -Ageddon - 2014
• -Monkey - 2009
• -Nation - 2015
• -Pocalypse - 2014
• 24/7 - 2000
• 97% Fat Free - 2006
• Absolutely! - 1993
• Academically Fragile - 2001
• Academically Ineligible - 1993
• Accident - 1994
• Acrost (for Across) - 1988
• Actioning - 2000
• Active Possibility - 1977
• Activity CoRequisite Required - 1994
• Actual Facts - 1991
• Address - 1991
• Adult - 1981
• Adults Over 21 - 1988
• Adversity - 2014
• Afterfeel - 1987
• A-ha Moment - 2011
• Alcoholic - 1990
• Alcohol-Related Drunk Driving - 1989
• Alexander Haig - 1982
• All Except - 1990
• All New - 2005
• All Songs with Monetary References of Less than $5. - 1983
• All Time Record - 1982
• Almost Exactly - 1990
• Alternative Lifestyle - 1988
• Alternative Music - 1996
• Alternatives - 1982
• Always Consistent - 1994
• Amazing - 2012
• Ambience - 1979
• The American People - 2011
• An Accident That Didn't Have to Happen - 2006
• An Historic - 1994
• And How Are We Today? - 1983
• "... And I Approve This Message" - 2005
• And More! - 2005
• And That's What it's All About - 1982
• Angst - 1992
• i-Anything - 2007
• Apartments Now Renting - 1991
• Apostrophe - 1985
• App - 2010
• Appall - 1982
• Apparent - 1992
• Appreciate - 1984
• Arguably - 1987
• Armed and Dangerous - 1996
• Armed Gunman - 1993
• Armed Robbery/Drug Deal Gone Bad - 2007
• Aromatherapy - 1997
• Articulate - 1983
• As If - 1997
• Ask Your Doctor - 2007
• As Per - 2003
• As We Speak - 1993
• As Well - 1992
• Ask For it By Name - 1999, - 2000
• Associates - 1993
• At Risk - 2000
• At The End of The Day - 1999
• At This Point in Time - 1976
• Athcure - 1988
• The Athens of the - 1980
• Athleticism - 2002
• Attitude - 1997
• Audibleized - 1987
• Author/Authored - 2008
• Awesome - 1984 ,2007
• Awoken/Woken - 1993
• Axed (for Asked) - 1988
• Baby Bump - 2012
• Babyboomers - 1989
• Back in the Day - 2008
• Back Story - 2011
• "Baddaboom, Baddabing" - 1994
• BAE - 2015
• Bailout - 2009
• Ballpark Figure - 1980
• Bare Naked - 1985
• Basically - 1984, - 1986, - 1993
• Battleground State - 2005
• Beautiful - 1979
• "Been There, Done That " - 1996
• Begs the Question - 2001
• Behind Closed Doors - 1994
• Best Kept Secret - 1990
• BFF - 2011
• Bicentenary - 1988
• Big Time - 1992
• Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky - 1999
• Bi-Partisanship - 2002
• Black Friday - 2008
• Black Ice - 2003
• 'Blank' is the new 'Blank' or 'X' is the new 'Y' - 2008
• Bling or Bling-Bling - 2004
• Blog - 2005
• Blowback - 2012
• Blue State / Red States - 2005
• Boasts - 2007
• Body Wash - 2005
• Bonding - 1993
• Boneless Wings - 2013
• 'Bots - 2002
• The Bottom Line - 1979, - 1992
• Brainstorm/Brainstorming - 2002
• Branding - 2003
• Breaking News - 2006
• Bridge metaphors - 1996
• "Bring Them to Justice" or "Bring the Evil-Doers to Justice" - 2002
• Bromance - 2010
• Bucket List - 2013
• Budget/Deficit Reduction Plan - 1991
• Build-Down - 1984
• Build to a Crescendo - 1998
• The bullet went all the way through the body - 1983
• Bummage - 1983
• Bureaucrap (a category) - 1990, - 1991, - 1999
• But You Shouldn't Feel that Way! - 1983
• By and Large - 1987
• Caboose Words - 1983
• Came to Play - 2000
• Campaign Rhetoric - 1981
• Capture Alive - 2004
• Carbs - 2005
• Car-Jacking - 2002
• Carbon Footprint or Carbon Offsetting - 2009
• Cast in Hat - 1991
• Catastrophic Health Insurance - 1989
• Cautiously Optimistic - 1992
• Celebrate - 2001
• Celebration - 1984
• Center Median - 1991
• Ceremonialization - 1984
• Chad - 2001
• Challenge - 2003
• Challenged - 1995
• Chill Out - 1980
• Chillaxin' - 2010
• Chipotle - 2007
• Choreography - 1991
• Classic - 1982, - 1989
• Clean Fill Dirt - 1996
• Clean Your Room - 1980
• Clearly Ambiguous - 1994
• Clients - 1987
• Climb Down - 1990
• Close Proximity - 1990
• Close to Everything - 1991
• Closure - 1996
• Co-Conspirator - 1993
• Cold Glass of Beer - 1989
• Color Commentator - 1993
• Colorize - 1987
• Colorization - 1987
• Come Down On - 1980
• Combined Celebrity Names - 2007
• Comfortable - 1987
• Common Sense - 1996
• Communicastor - 1986
• Community - 1992
• Community of Learners - 2006
• Companion Animals - 2004
• Completely Empty - 1993
• Completely Surround - 1990
• Conceptualize - 1983
• Conceptualization - 1983
• Condition - 1992
• Conferenced - 1988
• Conferencing - 1999
• Connect or Hook Up - 1992
• Consumer Confidence - 1995
• Conventional Wisdom - 1993
• Courtesy Call - 1999
• Cra-Cra - 2015
• Creative Differences - 1991
• The Crib - 1983
• Crik - 1988
• Cul de Sac - 1989
• Cult Classic - 1989
• Curate / Curated - 2015
• Customer Capital Reduction Plan - 1992
• Cut a Deal - 1991
• Cutting Edge - 1988
• Cybrarian - 2000
• Cyber - 1996
• Czar - 2010
• Da Bomb - 1998
• Dawg - 2006
• Deaccessioning - 1992
• Dead Meat - 1991
• Dead Serious - 1994
• Decimate - 2008
• Defense - 1989
• Definite Possibilities - 1993
• De-Install - 1987
• Delay Due to an Earlier Accident - 2002
• De-Plane - 1981
• Deproliferation - 1992
• Designer - 1989
• Designer Breed - 2006
• Desperate Search - 2009
• Destinate - 1983
• Detente - 1976
• De-Water - 1996
• Dialogue - 1976
• Dialoguing - 1999
• Disenfranchise - 2002
• Disincentives - 1983
• Diva - 2001
• Do-able - 1980
• Docudrama - 1989
• Doing the _____ thing - 1997
• Don't (even) Go There - 1997
• Done Deal - 1996
• Done in Good Taste - 1986
• "Doppler" as a modifier - 2002
• Dot.com - 2001
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• Downsizing - 1993
• Down Time - 1997
• Dramedy - 1989
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• Dude - 2001
• Dysfunctional - 1994
• 'E'-anything - 2000
• Each and Every One of You - 1996
• Ect. (for Etc.) - 1988
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• Enclosed Please Find - 1985, - 1989
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• "'Estates' in the Names for Mobile Home Parks" - 1990
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• Experience - 1983
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• False Start Prior to the Snap - 2001
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• Febuary - 1988
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• FEMA - 2006
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• Female Brethren - 1992
• Fifth-Year Senior - 1993
• Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience - 1983, - 1987, - 1990
• Final Destination - 2001
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• Fiscal Cliff - 2013
• Fisherperson - 1992
• Flat-Out - 2000
• Flip Flop / Flip Flopper / Flip Flopping - 2005
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• Foot Pedal - 1990
• Foot Speed - 2001
• For All Your Needs - 1988
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• Forced Relaxation - 1989
• Foreign Imports - 1987
• Foreseeable Future - 2002
• Forewarn - 2002
• Former First-Round Draft Choice - 1991
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• Free Gift - 1988
• Fresh Baked - 1989
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• Fresh Frozen - 1989
• Friend as a verb - 2010
• Friend-Raising - 2015
• Friendly Fire - 2002
• "Frig" and "Frigging" - 2002
• From the Desk of - 1990
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• Garageable - 1988
• Gary Hart - 1988
• False Pretenses - 1999
• Gathered Together - 1994
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• Get in Touch With Your Feelings - 1984
• Get it Right the First Time - 1998
• Get With the Program - 1992
• Giant Sucking Sound - 1994
• Gifting (or gift as a verb) - 1994
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• Git-Er-Done - 2006
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• Giving 110 Percent - 1998
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• Got - 1993
• Got Game - 2003
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• Grass Roots - 1993
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• The Honest Truth - 1991
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• Ink Pen - 1989
• Input - 1976
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• Interface - 1980
• Irregardless - 1979, - 1988
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• It's That Time of Year Again - 2009
• It's the Pits - 1980
• 'Izzle' - Speak - 2005
• Job Creators / Creation - 2013
• Joe Sixpack - 1997
• Journey - 2005
• Jumbo Shrimp - 1995
• Junk Science - 2006
• Just Play One Game at a Time - 1997
• Kick the Can Down the Road - 2013
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• La Macarena - 1997
• Lake Effect - 1987
• Language - 1983
• Large Size Petites - 1990
• Learning Resources Center - 1979
• Let's Do Lunch - 1986
• Level Playing Field - 1992
• Leverage - 2001
• Liberal - 1995
• Lightning Blitz - 1984
• Lightweighting - 1996
• Like (see also "I'm like a") - 1997
• Like I Said - 1986
• Like To - 1993
• Liposuction - 1990
• Listen Up - 1983
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• Live Life to the Fullest - 2011
• Living in Poverty - 1988
• Loan/Lend - 1984
• LOL - 2004
• Lone Gunman - 1988
• Longer Hours - 1991
• Lower Level - 1991
• Macho - 1976
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• Make No Mistake About It - 2003
• Making Money - 2002
• Male - 1984
• Mama Grizzlies - 2011
• Managing Terrorism - 1989
• Man Cave - 2012
• Man Up - 2011
• Mandate - 1985
• Mandatory Options - 1986
• Manual Recount by Hand - 2001
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• Maximum Leader - 1990
• Mc (anything) - 1986
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• Meaningful - 1976
• Meaningful Dialogue - 1976
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• Mental Mistake - 2003
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• Metrosexual - 2004
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• A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste - 1990
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• More Than Happy - 1994
• The More You Buy, The More You Save - 1990
• Most Complete - 1993
• Mother of all ____ - 1994
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• Mute Point - 1990
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• My Plate is Full - 1995
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• "Mystery Word (sounds familiar, but generally vague) " - 1983
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• Parenting Skills - 1991
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• The Patient Did Not Fulfill His Wellness Potential - 1987
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• Pretty Bad - 1995
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• Prioritize - 1978
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It's time to ban the banned words list

Jan 1, 2007 7:30 pm|1834 views

The annual list of banned words was published on New Year’s Eve by Lake Superior State University. This year’s no-no’s range from the generic superlative epithet awesome to the latest high-tech prefix, any "gadget" beginning with i-. The list would put an end to truthiness, a word that so many people find apt that it was honored with word-of-the-year awards two years running. To be banished too are such marketing clichés as ask your doctor (if the latest pill from Merck will cure you) and now playing in theaters (as opposed to “now on iPods everywhere”?). Combined celebrity names like TomKat and Brangelina will henceforth be divorced. Gitmo, the nickname of the American military stockade at Guantanemo Bay, will be summarily executed. And all references to undocumented aliens are to be deported.

Lake Superior U. boasts programs in the management of business, wildlife, and fisheries, but its Public Relations Office began a list of words it considers overused, misused, and generally useless - words like boast itself - back in 1975, and it’s fair to say that the school is better known for its efforts to manage English than for its fully-accredited programs in fire science, exercise science, or office administration, names that a skeptical reader might argue were perhaps a tad on the euphemistic side.

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What happened in my Birthyear

wordspy.com
Word of the Year

• Botox party
• chicken hawk
• corporate perp walk
• Enronomics
• Fifth Amendment capitalist
• homicide bombing
• office-park dad
• regime change
• threat fatigue
• war chalking

worldwidewords.org

• Most likely to succeed: Blog.
• Most useful: Google.
• Most creative: Dialarhoea.
• Most unnecessary: Wombanisation (feminization).
• Most outrageous: Neuticles
• Most euphemistic: Regime change.
• Phrase of the Year: Weapons of mass destruction.

Barnhart, David K.
Metcalf, Allan A.
America in So Many Words
Words That Have Shaped America

Did you know that the word "juke" (as in "jukebox") comes from the West African language Wolof and means "to make mischief"? Or that the slang expression "bogus" reaches as far back as 1797, when it signified a counterfeit coin? Like the country from which it emerged, American English is a vital multicultural stew of sources and influences. Word by word and year by year, America in So Many Words traces the origins and historical context of America's distinctive additions to the English language, from "canoe" (1555) all the way to "Ebonics" (1997). "O.K.", for instance, appeared in 1838 as part of a Boston fad for abbreviations--in this case, the humorously misspelled "all correct." "Rock and roll," America's equally famous contribution to the world lexicon, was first popularized in 1951 by disc jockey Alan Freed--his way to sidestep a prohibition against playing African American music for white audiences. A fascinating reference you'll read from cover to cover, America in So Many Words beautifully illustrates the ways in which history and vocabulary converge.

From Library Journal
From "skunk" and "canoe" in the 16th century to "virtual reality" and "soccer mom" in the late 20th century, this year-by-year review highlights words that have had an indelible American origin or meaning. Barnhart and Metcalf, two longtime lexicographers, have selected one particularly significant word for each year and, through anecdotes and historical details, discuss its roots, development, and importance. In 1864, for example, a "deadline" was an actual line drawn in the dirt to restrict Civil War prisoners ("If you cross this line, you're dead"). The 1891 term "country club" is juxtaposed with "sweatshop" in 1892 and connected by the apt little poem: "The golf links lie so near the mill/ That almost every day/ The laboring children can look out/ And see the men at play." "Teenager" appeared in 1938, followed by "DJs", "rock'n'roll", and "fast food" in the 1950s. This entertaining cultural history is recommended for general collections.

This book presents a unique historical view of American English. It chronicles year by year the contributions Americans have made to the vocabulary of English and the words Americans have embraced through the evolution of the nation. For important years from the settlement of Jamestown until 1750, and for every year from 1750 through 1998, a prominent word is analyzed and discussed in its historical context. The result is a fascinating survey of American linguistic culture through past centuries. The authors - both lifelong students of American English - bring great depth of understanding to these key words that have made America, and American English, what they are today.

Sample Entry: 1888 credit card
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