Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year and Word of the Decade - the Vote! https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Julian Melville https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278122#post278122 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278122#post278122 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:15:27 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278117#post278117 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278117#post278117 hippie :) ]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:01:42 +1300 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278102#post278102 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278102#post278102 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:37:11 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278015#post278015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278015#post278015 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:26:36 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278009#post278009 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=278009#post278009 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:04:16 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277996#post277996 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277996#post277996 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:29:39 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277969#post277969 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277969#post277969 Meth'd acting...
While Downton Abbey never made it into the 'My word' of the Yeah!
S Colbert Esq has slaked our seemingly bottomless thirst for all things class-based with – Breaking Abbey

]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:33:05 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277946#post277946 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277946#post277946 What no ‘nek minute’, which I loath, but was excedingly popular in the past year

see previous year

]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:07:42 +1300 DexterX https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277944#post277944 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277944#post277944 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:48:37 +1300 Bruce Hitcchcock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277943#post277943 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277943#post277943 What no ‘nek minute’, which I loath, but was excedingly popular in the past year http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nek+minute&oq=nek+minute&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.2163.5728.0.6220.10.5.0.5.5.0.315.1495.2-3j2.5.0…0.0…1ac.1.f0F8jDWcnGM. At only 4,400 youtube results and a totally kiwi phenomenon it’s exclusion beggars beleif Mr Brown.
Also how about Ineptocracy, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ineptocracy, which is prehaps the single greatest new word I have learnt this year! As…

]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:47:26 +1300 Rachel Prosser https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277942#post277942 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277942#post277942 I see that Google is listed as a noun, but I'm pretty sure I (and others) submitted it as a verb – "to google".

Robyn's use above ("I’ve been googling words and restricting results to the last year ") is the perfect example.

People now say they googled something with…

]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:03:51 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277932#post277932 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277932#post277932 I just realised the Google form is in Chinese… Heh

That's weird, it's all in English for me, and I'm using a Chinese-language OS and coming from a Chinese IP address...

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:48:35 +1300 Steve Withers https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277922#post277922 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277922#post277922 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:26:14 +1300 Tony Siu https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277916#post277916 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277916#post277916 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:34:13 +1300 Anonymous Author https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277903#post277903 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277903#post277903 No proper-nounified un-suffixed Dotcom?

Love 'brainfade' – it can be made to sound almost as onomatopaeic as 'flibbertigibberish'.
'Facebook', however, sounds like the shape of a headache slowly expanding.

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:03:14 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277902#post277902 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277902#post277902 Not only is fuckeulogy not in common use, but most of the results pages were user names or online slang dictionaries. If it's used in a sentence, its meaning is usually glossed first.

It was coined by John Oliver in the online podcast The Bugle after the death of Bin…

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:59:47 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277896#post277896 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277896#post277896 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:12:05 +1300 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277895#post277895 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277895#post277895 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:12:03 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277894#post277894 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277894#post277894 10 results in the past year

and mainly confined to PAS folk. interesting

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:11:36 +1300 Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277893#post277893 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277893#post277893 I'm not voting on the basis that a word has achieved any legitimacy or mainstream usage; rather that a word or term has touched me in the timespan.
Zeitgeisty terms will come & go, it is what we, as individuals remember and get resonance with that lasts on a personal basis.

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:09:38 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277892#post277892 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277892#post277892 I suppose this is all part of the deal. Language is just as susceptible to trends as popular music or clothing.

Yeah, usually a word has made an actual impression because it's suddenly arrived, for one reason or another. It seems quite reasonable that most would go the way they…

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:44:18 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277891#post277891 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277891#post277891 It's weird looking back at the Word of the Decade list. I've been googling words and restricting results to the last year and it's interesting how many struggle to get even a dozen results.

Not only is fuckeulogy not in common use, but most of the results pages were user…

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:31:35 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277888#post277888 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277888#post277888 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:08:03 +1300 Graeme Edgeler https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277885#post277885 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277885#post277885 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:29:50 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277884#post277884 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-1/?p=277884#post277884 Discussion from blog post.

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