- Unfriend (sounds more like 1984 Newspeak)
- Staycation (or No, we're not going away this year. Just days out. Probably.)
- Zombie bank (a bank that owes more than it owns but can still operate because of government support)
- Jeggings (tight leggings made from a material that looks like denim -- we need a word for that?? It's not a great look...Ok, it is on some people. I'm just not running out to get myself a pair)
"A word after a word after a word is power" - Margaret Atwood
BRIDGET WHELAN
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Saturday, 2 January 2010
Words of 2009
From Susie Dent at Oxford University Press ( and Channel 4 Countdown fame) words of 2009
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add oysterization which is the modernisation of a railway station to accept plastic oyster cards. I don't yet know how it might be used metaphorically...
.....she made a snappy exit, oystering her way out the bar door when it was her turn to buy a round...
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