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I Got A Word Of The Year For Them. Four Letters
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You know, this might be a first: The Oxford "word of the year" is the same for both the U.K. and U.S. this year, but I have never heard it used by any Americans, and it isn't a word, it's a phrase: "squeezed middle." That's what Labour Party leader Ed Miliband called the middle class in the bad economy, and Oxford claimed that it's transatlantic. Really? Is anyone saying that in the U.S.? And it beat out things like "Arab Spring," "fracking," "The 99 Percent," and "facepalm," all of which are far more common. And they have on the U.S. list words I've NEVER heard used by ANYONE: "clicktivism"? "Gamification"? "Sifi"? Who do these guys talk to? (Toronto Star)
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