In this episode, Grant offers a peek at some expressions he’s nominating for the American Dialect Society’s 2007 Word of the Year vote in January, 2008. Will it be w00t, subprime, or something else? You can also check out Grant’s...
paint job n.— «A Yonex brochure found at its store at the U.S. Open shows Lleyton Hewitt, the company’s high-profile spokesman, playing with the racket manufacturer’s RDX 500 model. But at center court Wednesday at Arthur Ashe Stadium...
There's a new online-only episode of "A Way with Words" today: a half-hour "New Word Open Mic" from the 2007 Dictionary Society of North America conference, during which all comers were invited to step up to the...
In June, Grant attended the biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America. One of the highlights was the New Word Open Mic where anybody was invited to step up to the microphone and submit a new word they had coined or found. Grant was...
wikigroaning n.— «First, find a useful Wikipedia article that normal people might read. For example, the article called “Knight.” Then, find a somehow similar article that is longer, but at the same time, useless to a very...
FOIA n.— «The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Open Government Act on April 12, a bill that would strengthen one of the most powerful tools Americans have to oversee the inner workings of government—the Freedom of Information...