Well, there were few Wisconsin folks in the room for the American Dialect Society's just finished Word of the Year vote, so I suppose it falls to me to give the Mr Verb account. Packed room, hilarious comments (Q: Are nominations from the floor accepted? A: Maaaaybe.) and you've already read on cooler blogs about the winners, including WOTY #hashtag, which I did NOT vote for.
Here's the rewind:
- Most useful: -(po)calypse, -(ma)geddon over YOLO
- Most creative gate lice (passengers crowding the gate waiting to board) over mansplaining
- Most unnecessary: legitimate rape
- Most outrageous: legitimate rape
- Most euphemistic: self-deportation
- Most likely to succeed: marriage equality
- Least likely to succeed: YOLO (nominated from the floor) over phablet
- Election words: Binders full of women (nominated from the floor)
Very political vocabulary, of course. But please, there is actually a word 'meggings', 'man's leggings'? This I did not need to know.
The holiday season is now officially over.
1 comment:
"Legitimate rape"? - are you kidding me? Anyway, even those above that unfortunate expression are unnecessary too.
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