Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2010
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It has to be twatcock. No contest.
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Looking at the news today reminds me: Wikileaks.
Edit: Snap.
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Intrinsically safe.
Brown town.
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Super Mayor
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If it isn't twatcock, I'll have you know that I will probably... grumble ineffectually about it! No one wants that!
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I’m please to see that my three faves have already been suggested.
liquefaction
It’s a gritty, strong word that seems to perfectly fit the oozy grey sludge that messed up a few Christchurch suburbs. Also prompted many to wonder what the past-tense is – liquefacted? Yeah, that sounds gooood.vuvuzela
A bit exotic, a bit rude, and much more pleasant to hear aloud than the annoying sound that the South African noisemaker produced.twatcock
The equal opportunities insult – a little bit twat, a little bit cock and a whole lot of twatcock. Full credit to Tom Beard for coining this much needed term. -
"Man, that aftershock was a bit of a twatcock"?
Cocky rhyming slang?
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I googled 'twatcock'. Apparently it has a sexual context also attached to it.
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Tom Beard, in reply to
I made the mistake of googling it at work as well. Google tries to be helpful by separating it into its component words, but in this case it is not so helpful. Well, maybe it would be, but not at work.
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
That would be “twat cock”. Try googling twatcock -“twat cock" and you’ll get a whole lot of different, generally non-porny results.
Also, someone’s having fun with @twatcock on Twitter.
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Megan Wegan, in reply to
Documenting the members of the sets Twat, Cock and the intersection Twatcock. The absolute complement of the union of these may also be remarked upon.
Awesome.
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Looks like it’s going to be twatcock by a landslide.
By way of a footnote then: this isn’t a neologism, but it seems to me to have been a year of entitlements.
Some of the powerful still got them of right, some lost them for overstepping the bounds, and some were about to get them taken away for the sin of being poor and non-influential. But at least various persons made sure that everyone knew they were entitled to their own views – the underlying message often being that they were entitled to bugger off regardless.
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I am all for twatcock although in terms of the competition this is tempered somewhat by the consideration that Tom Beard may be the single person in the world who's least in need of whisky.
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Gio: I dishpute ... dipsuit ... refudiate your allegamations.
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Jacob Powell, in reply to
I'm all for twatcock...i mean, i like it...i mean ummm... </abort>
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Tom: can you provide a pronunciation guide please?Being introduced to the word "twat" at intermediate school in my Invercargill phase (I know, we all go through one don't we) the "a" was pronounced like an "o" as in "hot". In my adult life - such as it has been to date - I have mostly heard the "a" pronounced as in "hat". Personally I prefer the sound of the latter but thought I would seek out the authoritative sounding so that my out loud musings re P**l H***y will be accurate. #thanks
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Gio: I dishpute … dipsuit …
Can nobody pronounce "Dikshit" properly?
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I also nominate twatcock because 1) it was coined by one of our own 2) it is a multipurpose word suited to all situations and occasions 3) I am innately scatalogical.
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recordari, in reply to
By way of a footnote then: this isn’t a neologism, but it seems to me to have been a year of entitlements.
I added 'entitlement' as an ETA to a post, and then decided against it, because I felt that 'twatcock' was pretty much applicable in most senses of 'entitlement' that I could think of.
As a word, it's utility seems almost unparalleled.
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'Anand Satyanand'
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I look forward to seeing the press release being published in Sideswipe after “twatcock” wins in a canter.
#eqnz should probably be in there.
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I look forward to seeing the press release being published in Sideswipe after “twatcock” wins in a canter.
Emma and I discussed this when I was down in Christchurch just recently.
"it's totally going to be twatcock, though, isn't it?"
"Poor Russell, having to put out a press release with 'the Public Address Word of the Year is something unprintable and unbroadcastable', though."
"I know"...
<evil cackling>
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I also nominate twatcock because 1) it was coined by one of our own 2) it is a multipurpose word suited to all situations and occasions 3) I am innately scatalogical.
Indeed. 'Twatcock' as a word has a deep ontological import for our community. It neatly encapsulates our deeply liberal nature, our thought and care to not be inadvertently offensive, together with our desire to be pointedly deliberately offensive where such is due.
Also I've been hanging out to hear Russell do the WOTY interviews since we realised what it was going to be.
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Megan Wegan, in reply to
hah, Snap!
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Heh, yeah, see, everything Megan and I say is true. We can independently verify each other.
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Danielle, in reply to
So if one of you is the other's alibi for a heinous crime...?
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