2013 Word of the Year 4

[2ffat]

Can you guess the Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year without looking it up?

How about Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year?


James P. Cottingham
I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229!

 

[CajunCenturion]

I sincerely hope it's not "twerk".

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[SkipVought]

I don't want "twerk", so I'm planning "tretire" in 6 months!

Skip,
[sub]
Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance![/sub]

 

[tcsbiz]

I will guess either twerk or selfie; both of which make my flesh crawl.

Tom

 

[SantaMufasa]

Interestingly, neither twerk nor selfie appears yet in either online offering from Merriam-Webster or Oxford English Dictionary.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

 

[randy700]

I actually just read an article about this before logging on here.
One is a bit of a surprise, the other not so much.

Spoiler

Selfie - Oxford
Science - Merriam Webster (didn't see that coming)

Randy

 

[tcsbiz]

I thought of another one, for those of us in the U.S. only, though:

Obamacare

Tom

 

[mscallisto]

Obamacare ... is that a pluperfect noun?

Sam

 

[SantaMufasa]

Obamacare ... is that a pluperfect noun?

No, it's a far-from-perfect noun.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[mscallisto]

Yep I should have said imperfect noun; thanks Santa

 

[FredWagner]

I wonder if 'obamacare' will become an adjective to describe misbegotten, or mismanaged IT Projects that were knowingly released incomplete and insufficiently tested ?

Fred Wagner
(retired, but still involved!)

 

[SantaMufasa]

I wonder if 'obamacare' will become an adjective to describe misbegotten, or mismanaged IT Projects that were knowingly released incomplete and insufficiently tested ?

Actually, Fred, from a grammatical perspective, Obamacare will always be a noun. For it to be an adjective, I believe the term would have to be Obamacarrion. <grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[philhege]

Recall the honorable Mr. Robert Bork. We could say that a software project was "Obamacared", much as a nomination is "Borked", not in the sense of the definition, but in the sense of a noun's being "verbified", or if you like, "verbed."

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[BobRodes]

<I wonder if 'obamacare' will become an adjective to describe misbegotten, or mismanaged IT Projects that were knowingly released incomplete and insufficiently tested ?

We already have a name for those. They are called "IT Projects".

An unforeseen consequence of the information revolution has been the exponential propagation of human error.

 

[mscallisto]

very good BobRodes