word of the year

I don’t honestly know anything about the New Oxford American Dictionary or why I should care what they think – they’re not one of *my* 31 dictionaries – but I do like their word of the year, “unfriend.” As in, “Once a former colleague unfriended me because of  a comment I wrote on her Facebook status.” (She sheepishly refriended me a few weeks later – I’d never even noticed.)

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2 Responses to word of the year

  1. Coloradan says:

    What was your comment?

  2. Helen says:

    It was a…pessimistic, shall we say, remark about the place we worked together. We agreed that this was particularly amusing because it’s nothing she hadn’t said many times.

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