high touch adj.— «Big Brother is banished from Mr. Naisbitt’s 1980’s. On the contrary, to use his key words, the decade will be decentralized and high-touch, participatory and networked, filled with multiple options in an information...
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...
A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about language, on the air since 1998. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett delve into word histories, solve grammar disputes, give and answer quizzes, and take calls from listeners...
souveniring n.— «Conservation Assistant Lori Lee-Rameriz says the flag lost some of it’s pieces, thanks to “souveniring.” Souveniring is the term used to describe the cutting of the flag by soldiers, who wanted a piece of the...
finger trouble n.— «The system is user friendly, provides comprehensive computer data-checking features and is robust to operator finger trouble.» —“Conference Abstracts” Journal of the Operational Research...