Nerd News: Linguistic Fun as "Refudiate" is Named Word of the Year
The Sarah Palinism "refudiate" -- an apparent portmanteau of "refute" and "repudiate" -- is the New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year for 2010. Take a look also at the runners-up. (Yes, "vuvuzela" is on the list.)
2 comments:
Your link leads to an explanation by one Ms. Napolitano defending airport security procedures.
Refudiation by implication? Brilliant! (You have to imagine my imitation Irish accent.)
Oops! That was meant for the previous blog post. Link fixed now so it'll go to:
http://blog.oup.com/2010/11/refudiate-2/
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