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Dec. 16th, 2012
Sunday language linkage.
Dec. 16th, 2012 10:22 pmNot sure whether this is of much interest, but here are some links for this week:
As it is the end of the year, we're getting some more Word of the Year lists:
First, there is Fritinancy with her choice of brand names of the year over at Visual Thesaurus. It's not a list of favourites, but more about what has been in the (American) news and what's indicative of naming trends.
Second, over at the same place Ben Zimmer in his Word Routes column shares his "Year in Words". Again, an American slant, but lots of fun and thought-provoking entries.
Third, the American Dialect Society is still looking for nominations for #woty12 (which is the hashtag you should use on twitter if you've got a word for them).
Fourth, the words that were looked up in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary last year because of something in the news, week by week.
As a bonus, links to two tweets by lexicographer Kory Stamper about Xmas, the word people love to hate for the wrong reasons.
In Eng, "X" for "Christ" dates to ~1000AD. "Xmas": 1500. Idea that "Xmas" is a secular whitewash of "Christmas": 1943
First newspaper defense of "Xmas" as keeping the "Christ" in "Christmas": 1926
Original tweets contain links to the documents.
So, what's your #woty12?
As it is the end of the year, we're getting some more Word of the Year lists:
First, there is Fritinancy with her choice of brand names of the year over at Visual Thesaurus. It's not a list of favourites, but more about what has been in the (American) news and what's indicative of naming trends.
Second, over at the same place Ben Zimmer in his Word Routes column shares his "Year in Words". Again, an American slant, but lots of fun and thought-provoking entries.
Third, the American Dialect Society is still looking for nominations for #woty12 (which is the hashtag you should use on twitter if you've got a word for them).
Fourth, the words that were looked up in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary last year because of something in the news, week by week.
As a bonus, links to two tweets by lexicographer Kory Stamper about Xmas, the word people love to hate for the wrong reasons.
In Eng, "X" for "Christ" dates to ~1000AD. "Xmas": 1500. Idea that "Xmas" is a secular whitewash of "Christmas": 1943
First newspaper defense of "Xmas" as keeping the "Christ" in "Christmas": 1926
Original tweets contain links to the documents.
So, what's your #woty12?