War of the Words
January 10th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
The New Oxford American Dictionary has already announced that its word of 2007 is LOCAVORE.
Merriam-Webster picked as its word of 2007 w00t.
The American Dialect Society’s word of 2007 is SUBPRIME.
And now the Australian dictionary Macquarie is set to decide its own word of 2007.
This is madness!
What is this, the BCS rankings where more than one team can share a championship? This is bullshit. In the era of feel good diversity, even innocent and impressionable elementary school kids duke it out to be crowned the best spellers in a nationally televised spelling bee.
We need a definitive Word of 2007. I propose that each region in the world autonomously pick its own word of 2007 and then linguistic specialists representing their corners of the world will convene in a Las Vegas convention hall to compete in a series of rigorous academic duels to determine the Word of 2007.
There can be only ONE!
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