Wednesday, March 19, 2003

New Lingo

The Word Spy is a website devoted to catologing and explaining "recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance." Here's a sampling of new words and phrases that are cropping up increasingly in newspapers, magazines, books, press releases and on the Web (and presumably on the airwaves, too):

wife acceptance factor
leather spinster
earworm
Anglosphere
post-mortem divorce
google
poo X
chewable liquor
FOI-able
peeping-Tom TV

Do you have any idea what these words/phrases refer to? Neither did I, with the exception of "google," but you can find out at The Word Spy. (Hint: you've probably seen some "poo Xs" without realizing what they were.)

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