Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2010
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I'm thinking Pike River has to be up there, for the event/words that are most evocative. or maybe that should be #pikeriver...
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Has to be Sarah Palin's 'refudiate' in her tweet about the Ground Zero Mosque that's not really at Ground Zero at all. It's a supposed mix of refute and repudiate. According to a tweet she later sent, she's joining Shakespeare in contributing to our living language. The Oxford American Dictionary has named 'refudiate' its 2010 word of the year. I'm sure we'll hear many more Palinisms in the next couple of years.
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Wellywood/ Hobbit
Not so high profile here but: zazzy
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Can not believe there's been 4 comments and no one has said it yet.
Alright, then, because Tom is far too humble to do it himself (Hah!), if I may:
Twatcock.
(And it's various usages, my own favourite being twatcockery.)
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Was "twatcock" this year? Hope so!
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Loved ones
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Nice Raymond, reminds me: aftershock...
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recordari, in reply to
And the winner is...
Hardly seems worth playing any more. -
caycos, in reply to
Oh true - the earthquake was pretty huge.. I really think it ought to be a twitter tag though. #eqnz!
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"vuvuzela"
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Trish Anderson, in reply to
But then #pikeriver is pretty big too
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Contagion - for the economically-minded
Dikshit - for the entertainment weekly crowd -
And how could we forget "real New Zealander" -- which came out of the mouths of people whose bitter estrangement from reality made the doom of the Atreidae look like a particularly dull episode of Father Knows Best.
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Chilean Miners.
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Has to be Sarah Palin’s ‘refudiate’
The problem is that if you started on Palin's eye-watering GBH against the fabric of reality, you'd never stop.
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I guess we have had sufficient going forward with going forward?
My daughter nominates squally showers
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Liquefaction
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"Mexicans with cellphones"
(nah, I'd go with twatcock)
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Megan Wegan, in reply to
Hardly seems worth playing any more.
Indeed. Although as it has been pointed out, Aftershock is quite the contender.
Perhaps we could make it a sentence? "Man, that aftershock was a bit of a twatcock"?
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I think that the liveliest linguistic invention is in twitter-style hastags.
So I'm nominating #slutskirt.
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If it’s to be a twitter hash tag, then I’m surprised no-one has suggested #allwhites. Although that was probably more a 2009 thing, with the qualifying. The Cup was pretty big though too.
Other football related words might include: draw, and undefeated/unbeaten.
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"Actors' boycott"
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I like "twatcock", but also the Ben Gracewood creation: "cuntbiscuit". A word I have used numerous times this year.
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wikileaks
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