Palin's 'Refudiate' Is Oxford American Dictionary's Word Of The Year

[Generic Other]

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Well, the editors at Oxford American Dictionary figured that "refudiate" expressed something different enough that it deserved to be a new word. They explain:

From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used “refudiate,” we have concluded that neither “refute” nor “repudiate” seems consistently precise, and that “refudiate” more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of “reject.”

So they present to you, Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year:

refudiate verb used loosely to mean “reject”: she called on them to refudiate the proposal to build a mosque.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/11/15/131339850/palin-s-refudiate-is-oxford-american-dictionary-s-word-of-the-year

So I guess this means "flustrate" is a word too?

[Drale]

1. Wow I thought Oxford had standards

but I guess not, and people wonder why dictionaries are a dieing thing.

[sally cat]

2. They are obviously needed by many.

[Generic Other]

4. The Oxford AMERICAN has way lower standards

and is much shorter.

[derby378]

3. Jesus wept

Or as Sister Sarah would put it, "Jesus weeped, you betcha! I can see his tears from my house!"

[Generic Other]

5. Getting into a dictionary for mangling a word

is like getting a junior fire badge for burning down your house.

[derby378]

7. You came close to making me snort soda out my nose

Thanks for that! :rofl:

[malaise]

18. DUzy

for sure :rofl:

[madmax]

12. ROFLMAO! That's really good. nt

[WCGreen]

6. Ah, the northern light weight has her tentacles everywhere...

[SidDithers]

8. As "truthiness" was, by the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2006...nt

Sid

[Generic Other]

9. "Truthiness" was an intentionally coined word not the slip of the tongue

of a whiny bobble head of a coo coo from Alaska.

[lob1]

10. Now it's official. Palin is famous for making up shit.

[madmax]

11. LOL but, that's not new nt

[Generic Other]

15. Did they make "misunderestimate" a word when Bush said it?

Probably.

[Cresent City Kid]

16. Might as well give him "Troublematic" and "Disatrophe"

[elocs]

13. Yeah, I never get tired of reading that here. Over and over and over again.

Enough already.

[Marie Marie]

14. And the rewards for Stupid continue.

Way to encourage idiocracy. God, this woman could fart and they would rush out to bottle it as a new standard for perfume. Give me a break!

[dimbear]

17. More proof Palin is the smartest living Republican.

I miss William F. Buckley, tho.