Although the blogosphere is replete with references to this “news” item, I feel compelled to add my own two cents’ worth here. The editors of the New American Oxford Dictionary have chosen the word “podcast” as the Word of the Year for 2005.
Podcast, defined as “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player,” will be added to the next online update of the New Oxford American Dictionary, due in early 2006.
It’s certainly the best alternative among the top candidates, which included “bird flu” (hey guys, that’s two words), “IDP” (hey again, that’s an acronym), short for an internally displaced person, or “squick” (which I believe to be a made-up word), which purportedly is a verb that means cause immediate and thorough revulsion as in “was anyone else squicked by our waiter’s piercings?”
Cynthia Brumfield at 4:33 PM|Comments(0)
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