BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The words in the mental cupboard

  • BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The words in the mental cupboard

    tags: words, vocabulary

    • US company Global Language Monitor (GLM) believes that the one millionth word will be added to the English language in mid-June.


      NEW WORDS/PHRASES
      Airline pulp - airline food
      Cutties - formal Indian term for ladies’ underwear
      Noob - neophyte in computer gaming
      Truthiness - having the ring of truth though false

      Source: Global Language Monitor

      While there is agreement that a word becomes a word when it is used by one person and understood by another, grammarians and lexicographers stand divided when deciding which to include when calculating a total.

      Obamamania, bankster and bloggerati are just some of the "brand new words" GLM has been tracking.

Posted by terry.elliott on May 3rd, 2009 and is filed under JUnk.

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