On Jan 7, 2:25 pm, Mike Lyle <
mike_lyle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 07:32:51 -0800 (PST), Jerry Friedman
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> <
jerry_fried...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >On Jan 6, 3:07 pm,
woll...@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) wrote:
> >> OK, the American Dialect Society calls it "Word of the Year", but
> >> there are plenty of multiple-word nominations. Ben Zimmer's blog post
> >> lists the lot:
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> >> <
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3090/>
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> >> Other than "cloud" and "tablet", both of which are long-standing words
> >> of IT jargon, and "artisanal" which is a borrowing from French cheese
> >> regulations, I don't see much here we're likely to remember in a
> >> year's time. Most of them I was blissfully unaware of.
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> >And "occupy" (in its new senses) wins! My favorite was
> >"assholocracy", which won "most outrageous". If one wanted to say
> >that more classically, how would one do it?
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> "Proctocracy".
Thanks. I should have gotten that.