Unfriend: only words with lex-appeal become words of the year

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 18 November, 2009 to the trends subset

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 [...]

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