Thanks to Mme Joad, I don’t have to write a post today (well, apart from this introductory piece). She sent me a really amusing email – one of those that gets passed around one’s mailing list. As luck would have it, the subject was new words. The Washington Post has a section – on line [...]
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The word neologism refers to a word or phrase that has been recently introduced into the language. As always, “recently” can mean different things to different people and there is no definite cut-off point between when a phrase or word is coined and when it passes into common usage – sometimes temporarily, sometimes not. Neologism [...] .flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } [...] .flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } [...] |
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