i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

The Oxford New American Dictionary officials, in an armchair moment, captures some of our popular words in 2009.  "Twitterisms," unsurprisingly is a 'notable word cluster' but fails to win the top word.  Sure, language isn't static, but who should be the authority to rank 'tweeting' above 'unfriend'?  *grumble*

Top Word of 2009: Unfriend, But Twitterisms Abound

-joan