Vocabulary Update

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The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have announced their Word of the Year for 2005.

And the word is…Podcast. No surprises there.

Runners-up for the 2005 US Word of the Year include: bird flu,IED, lifehack, persistent vegetative state ( technically a phrase), sudoku, trans fat and squick – which apparently means to cause immediate and thorough revulsion, eg. “was anyone else squicked by that suit’s arse-licking?”