November 17, 2009

New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year

Unfriend.

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  1. HTMLGIANT on November 17th, 2009 at 10:10 am

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  2. Phil Bebbington on November 17th, 2009 at 10:42 am

    To even say that this is the best of a bad bunch would be to make too much of it! I don’t foresee the need to use this or indeed remember it, which I guess will remove my ability to use it!

    Damn nearly confused myself there.

  3. Dave Vogt on November 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am

    as a noun only, please.

  4. Sheila Ryan on November 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Like 7 Up, the Uncola.

  5. Lucy Foley on November 17th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Oh I don’t know. I’ve had at least a handful of conversations using the verb, ‘to unfriend’, this past year. I fart too, occasionally. I saw someone argue elsewhere for ‘de-friend’ which of course is less likely to get a pedant’s grammatical goat, but you know, you just can’t argue with common usage.

    Didn’t click through to the yahoo article so don’t know if they linked to this, but it’s classier.

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