New words in Merriam-Webster dictionary
Jon Louis Mann
net_democracy at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 7 10:06:38 PDT 2008
> In particular, the new words include
> "mondegreen", which I first heard
> about in SF-related circles. (More filk than anything
> else, and it was a
> filker that brought this to my attention this morning.)
> Julia
also, the article mentions:
John Morse, Merriam-Webster's president and publisher, said the cleverness of many Web-related terms makes them easy to grasp and gives them staying power. Webinar (an online meeting) is new, along with netroots (political grassroots activists who communicate online, especially in blogs).
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