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I would have voted for Wide Stance

Ran across this one while blogging this afternoon, watching the Longhorns play St. Mary's - sadly basketball, learning to let football go...

Check it out - American Dialectic Society's Word of the Year is (drum roll please .. dududududdududududu...."subprime.")

The number after each nomination is the number of votes it received. Numbers separated by slash marks indicate a run-off. Voting totals are for each category might not be identical because the number of voters might have changed for each category.

WORD OF THE YEAR WINNER: "subprime," an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment. 79
"green"- prefix/compounding form - designates environmental concern, as in greenwashing. 9
"surge" - an increase in troops in a war zone. 1
"Facebook" - all parts of speech. 11
"waterboarding" - an interrogation technique in which the subject is immobilized and doused with
water to simulate drowning. 1
"Googleganger" - A person with your name who shows up when you Google yourself. 7
"wide stance, to have a" - To be hypocritical or to express two conflicting points of view. When
Senator Larry Craig was arrested in a public restroom and accused of making signals with his
foot that police said meant he was in search of a anonymous sex, Craig said it was a
misunderstanding and that he just had a wide stance when using the toilet. 2

There are many more good words in other categories, such as "bacn," "global weirding," and "earmarxist" ... never heard of any of 'em .... worth a look....

Posted on January 05, 2008 at 05:50 PM

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