7 February 2008
Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year
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This week the Macquarie Dictionary announced the winner of its WOTY (Word of the Year) competition 2007. An expert panel declared it to be 'pod slurping' - a noun to describe the downloading of large amounts of data to an MP3 player or a memory stick. Another favourite was 'infomania' to describe the almost pathological immediacy of attending to incoming messages on email, text and all kinds of other gadgets infomaniacs may have in their cache. What do you think? Do we need more new words and perhaps you've got your own new word?
Guests
Susan Butler - Publisher, Macquarie Online Dictionary
Ruth Wajnyrb - Linguist and SMH columnist
Further Information
For a link to the Macquarie Dictionary site
To download a pdf file on how words evolve from New Scientist magazine
Presenter
Paul Barclay
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