Words of the year revisited
Knowing how many lexiphiles there are out there, I bring you the latest word of the year contest, this time courtesy of the American Dialect Society. And it is a corker:
"To pluto" - 'to demote or devalue someone or something'.
Other words / phrases with scope to go big:
"Data Valdez" - 'an accidental release of a large quantity of private or privileged information'
"Tramp stamp" - 'Tattoo on a woman's upper bottom or lower back'. (Loads of them in this neck of the woods - as becomes woefully clear in the summer. C)
Sounds like the ADS is used to being way, way ahead of the curve, as they crowned 'truthiness' their word of the year in 2005, Red / Blue states in 2004, metrosexual in 2003, WMD in 2002 and 9-11 in 2001.
"To pluto" - 'to demote or devalue someone or something'.
Other words / phrases with scope to go big:
"Data Valdez" - 'an accidental release of a large quantity of private or privileged information'
"Tramp stamp" - 'Tattoo on a woman's upper bottom or lower back'. (Loads of them in this neck of the woods - as becomes woefully clear in the summer. C)
Sounds like the ADS is used to being way, way ahead of the curve, as they crowned 'truthiness' their word of the year in 2005, Red / Blue states in 2004, metrosexual in 2003, WMD in 2002 and 9-11 in 2001.
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I deperately need "closure" on the silly word front.I `m still dying to know who annonymou is as well. It seems she is a woman and she has said she has a pot belly . Not much to go on.
I doubt that you will be getting closure any time soon. I am tempted to tell you who anonymou is, but I think I'll just let you suffer a bit more.
You know Anonymou? How annoying , you didn`t before.I can`t think of any woman who is fat funny and anonymous exceopt every girl I snogged at University.
Telegraph covering the slimming dogs today, Yet another triumph.
Closure still not forthcoming I am "signalling" my discontent.You will need to chase down "outriders" ..I actually like that last one.
Invest in education=spend on education = waste on unreformed education/ public service of choice.
Well I know lots of details of ther Conservative education policy beuibng drafted well well in advance of any announcement including measures the NUT will detest. Fess up on anonymou and i will consider giving you a real scoop.
Something to underline and write IRONY next to :
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
" Fear of Long words"
I have more but before things get unpleasant give me the head of anonymou
N - I don't. I'm pulling your chain.
I have encountered 'sequipedalianism', which is the art of using long words when shorter and simpler ones are more apt.
Liar , bring me the head of anonymou How obvious can you get !!
Alas I am no Warren Oates.
Hello Newmania,
I am not fat, just have a little post-Christmas pot!
I love "grandiloquent". Alas, I don't get to use it very often.
Anonymou xxx
"Floccinaucinihilipilification"
I remember that word was always used on a crap game show that used to be after school back in the dark ages. Can't remember the name.
another term for a tatoo in the small of a womans back (or anywhere as far as i am concerned)
is..
A SLAG TAG
"Discombobulate"
My most hated word of 2006 has to be "issues", esp. when used in the phrase "issues around". Also "consultation".
Oh yes CM Comsultation in a local context might be tranlated as "excuse". We just keep consulting until you get it right. A word used frequently by the cloven hooved , pointy tailed black tongued devil.You are very close to my sensitive , don`t get me started areas here.
I see midly podgy anonymou is still building up the overpowering musky atmosphere of mystery around her ( I hope its a her ).Grrrr
I nearly got a tattoo once and my father has a superb faded one from the army. The words mean "woman is fickle" . Did he need reminding?
I`m not keen on Girly tattoos but I wouldn`t kick Angelina Jolie out of bed either for eating crackers ; or having a tattoo.
Being frightfully old fashioned, I think tattoos are for sailors. Still, each to their own.
What a brouhaha about tattoes.
My sister almost had the saltire tattoed on her calf muscle. Thankfully it never happened. Not a very exciting story, but there we are.
Please consider the word "roof". Say it out loud a few times, preferably in private.
PH _ Slag Tag deserves universal usage! So simple, so direct, so apt, so English! We should all commit to using it at least once a day until it comes back around at us.....
"wide on"
Sorry to be crude.
Bearing your health warning in mind, that is really rather good. Unless I really do have an open sewer for an imagination.
No, I suspect you guessed correctly C. I first heard it a few years ago, from a lesbian, but it seems to have become more common recently.
Tsk tsk anonymou.
Funny I grant you but you know the rules . Only men can be crude . Its the law.
( I feel threatened by this enviroment)
I rather like this phrase used to describe the bed of a lonely gentleman
wanking chariot
Ah, 'tis only crude if it lacks wit.
twatois n.
The sort of fake Jamaican dialect favoured by middle class youths wishing to enhance their street credibility
Cornelius Madman, add your "issues" to the Hall of Fame on the left, where we have compiled a nauseating list of NuLab words and phrases we loathe.
I don't like fat people. I see a fat person and immediately know that I can't stand them. Saves time.
how do you feel about "bloated" verity?
"Bloated" as in the Labour government and all its evil manifestations? I think producing bloating or being involved in bloating or benefitting from bloating should be defined as a capital crime.
I like "pluto" as a transitive verb. The others lack that certain je ne sais quoi. No style.
Croydonian - You've styled those of us on this thread and the Hall of Fame thread lexiphiles. How passé!
In 2007, we're wordanistas (said with a sneer). I believe this was invented by the same fellow who invented truthiness.
(Hangs head in shame....)
I've heard the tatoo at the small of the back referred to by certain crude individuals as the "slut barcode".
I am indebted to you for the Antipodean insight.
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