[Infowarrior] - "Unfriend" is US dictionary's 2009 word of the year

[Richard Forno]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111603964.html?hpid=sec-nation


Unfriend is US dictionary's 2009 word of the year
The Associated Press
Monday, November 16, 2009; 9:58 PM

NEW YORK -- What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend?
That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It  
means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site  
such as Facebook.

Each year Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is  
changing and chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year.

Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg says unfriend has "real lex  
appeal."

Finalists for 2009 also included netbook, which is a small laptop, and  
sexting, which is sending sexually explicit texts and pictures by cell  
phone.