| Each January, the folks at the American Dialect Society vote for the Word of the Year.
The 2006 winner is: PLUTOED. To pluto is “to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet”. See the full press release, including all other nominations and vote tallies, here. |
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According to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, the word that best summed up 2006 is: truthiness – “truth that comes from the gut, not books.
Truthiness made its debut on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report in October 2005.
This is not the first award for the word – it was also awarded the 16th annual Word of the Year (2005) by the American Dialect Society, who defined it as “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.”
December 11th, 2006 by Susan Atkey | No Comments »
Jacques Cartier’s A Short and Brief Narration of the Two Navigations and Discoveries to the Northweast Parts Called New France from 1580
lexicons of fashion from the 1690s such as Mundus Mulierbris: or, The Ladies’ Dressing-room Unlocked, and Mundus Foppensis or the Fop Displayed
A Key to the Hebrew Bible by William Robertson, fom 1656
UBC Library is currently trialling the database Lexicons of Early Modern English.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods (1480-1702).
A sample of titles from the over 150 lexicons:
The trial ends January 10, 2007.
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