Vote for Webster’s 2007 Word of the Year; Visual Dictionary

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Kevin

You have until Friday, December 7, 2007, to vote for Merriam-Webster dictionaries’ Word of the Year.

The winner in 2006 was truthiness, as popularized by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report TV show.

2007 Nominees:

  • apathetic
  • babymoon
  • blamestorm
  • charlatan
  • conundrum
  • cruft
  • eleemosynary
  • facebook
  • hypocrite
  • linkability
  • melancholy
  • Pecksniffian
  • pretentious
  • pugnacious
  • quixotic
  • sardoodledom
  • sputum
  • subpoena
  • vanity sizing
  • w00t [woot with zeros]

Merriam-Webster also now offers a free online Visual Dictionary.

In other Word of the Year news, the New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen locavore, a person who advocates “using locally grown ingredients” for meals (runners-up).

See also my post:
Webster’s (and Webster’s) 2006 Word of the Year

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