OED names words of the year for US & UK
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OED names words of the year for US & UK
Omnishambles named UK word of the year by Oxford English DictionaryRunners up:
Eurogeddon
Mummy porn
Games maker
Mobot
Second screening
Pleb
green-on-blue
The Oxford American Dictionary, however, went with GIF
The editors said gif was being recognized for making the crucial transition from noun to verb, "to gif": to create a gif file of an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event. And, inevitably, to share it online. Cute kittens, Olympic champions, President Obama — they've all been giffed.
Runners up included
superstorm
Higgs boson
YOLO (you only live once.)
Super PAC
Eurogeddon
nomophobia-- anxiety caused by being without one’s mobile phone from no + mo(bile) + phobia
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Omnishambles named UK word of the year by Oxford English Dictionary
Absolutely on everyone's lips here, to such an the extent it is the only one in the (Brit) list I was previously unaware of. At least it is obvious what it means.The TT word of the year must be obvballs. There is a possibility this is the only word anywhere ever with the consontal sequence bvb. And when you google it, TT is the first hit. At least it is for me, these things are so personalised these days.
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Now to await the Scrabble dictionary updates. I've been trying to use GIF the past few years online - it keeps getting rejected as an invalid word. Hah! I knew it was one all along.And as for omnishambles, it seems to me that fubar had that meaning already covered. Kids, these days! No sense of history.
Edited by: Midwesterner
