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Oxford Dictionaries Words of the Year 2009

Posted by gem, 18th November 2009


 

Ok, you may have noticed that I have a small infatuation with words (this is me hugging them because they are my friends). Apparently this is called Logolepsy, or you could call me a Logomaniac (yes these are actually correct terms, not jordifins and yes I am a geek)

Today I found out that every year before the holidays Oxford Dictionaries release the 'Word of the Year'.

2009's winner was.............................drum rolllllllllllllllllllllllll

'Unfriend' -... Read more
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Making up words! It's Fun! notice the capital f?

Posted by gem, 3rd August 2009
Quite often I find myself making up works or combining two or more words to more accuratly describe something.

My sister and I came up with the term 'Jordefin', which means 'the joining together of two words to provide a definition'...so....infact....'Jordefin' is a 'Jordefin' as it takes parts of all of the above words, but in doing so, creates a shorter word that you can say with more ease.

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