words of the year, 2003
earlier this month, the
American Dialect Society published
a list of words which most coloured the country's lexicon or otherwise dominated national discourse. my favourites are:
arse/ass-hat (category: most usefeul. noun, a thoughtless or stupid person);
collyer (noun, in New York City, a person trapped under their own collected debris in their apartment);
freegan (winner, most-uselful category. noun, person who eats only what they can get for free) and of course,
weapons of mass deception (plural noun, the hunt for weapons of mass destruction as a pretext for war).
# posted by j @ 19:00 et / | 
