UNFRIEND IN THE OED
November 18, 2009
by ALEX PASTERNACK
Just as we were still getting used to not! and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the Oscars for words apparently took place over the weekend and chose a new Best Picture: unfriend. Explains the judges, the Oxford English Dictionary, “To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook” (which was itself WOTY in 2007). Meanwhile, the Olde English Dictionary went with the more standard term, Whopper Sacrifice.
Read more of Alex’s review of the word Oscars on Motherboard.tv
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localola: it's about time "unfriend" became official... has caused me a lot of fuckin drama recently
3 months ago
WartsNAll: I prefer to call it "purging."
3 months ago
noodle: way to stay progressive oxford english dictionary
3 months ago
lowbrow: the olde english dictionary? nice.
3 months ago