What word sums up the year 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 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.
Finalists for 2009 also included “netbook’,’ a small laptop.
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Sounds like newspeak
Such an important word and valuable concept -where was this word until now?