The social networks have birthed a new official word – unfriend – being the act of removing someone from your friends list on a site like Facebook or MySpace.
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.”
I nominate lex-appeal for word of the year 2010.
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