Hypermiling

Hockey mom will probably be another big word of the year choice for a lot of people.

Oh, of course.

It follows on the pattern of soccer mom, right?

Right, right.

And in the same way kind of means a suburban family-oriented woman who is, you know, active in her children’s life, carting them around to sports practices and after-school events and the like.

Right, and has a $150,000 wardrobe.

Yes, yes.

Well, you know, credit crunch was picked by Oxford University Press in the U.K.

Is their word of the year.

That means that credit is now kind of hard to come by.

But Oxford University Press in the United States have picked hypermiling,

Which is working really hard to get the maximum miles per gallon out of your gasoline.

Ooh, that’s nice.

I like that, hypermiling.

Yeah, I’m not so sure about that.

I mean, it’s an interesting word. I just don’t think it was particularly significant this year. But, you know, when the dictionary makers pick their words of the year, it’s mostly a publicity stunt.

Actually, I think it should be something more, I don’t know, Anglo-Saxon, like soft peddling or, you know, light footing or something.

I see. Don’t you think?

You should write them and tell them.

I will. I’ll give you some names. I will.

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