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Sunday, May 25, 2008

WORD SPY

WORD SPY is a site devoted to "lexpionage," or "the sleuthing of new words and phrases." Word Spy only lists words that have appeared in multiple reliable sources -- newspapers, magazines, web sites -- and cites those sources. One recent new word is "mobisode" meaning, "A short program, or the edited highlights from a longer program, designed to be watched on a small, mobile screen such as a digital media player or a mobile phone," which has appeared in well-respected publications like The Toronto Sun and The New York Times. Word Spy is a very useful site for getting the skinny on new words that have entered the English vernacular via popular media. On more than one occasion I've turned to Word Spy for a definition of a word I'd never heard before.

1 comment:

ARFI said...

this is cool stuff ya
there are many new words comin up everyday so this will be very useful stuff to find out the meanings of those words