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Thread #139070 Message #3187138
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-Jul-11 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: BS:threat to English language from Americanisms
Subject: RE: BS: the threat to the english language from
The Oxford University Press blog says 'refudiate' is a verb "used loosely to mean 'reject'."
The New Oxford American Dictionary has named it the 2010 'Word of the Year'. The link below is to an article listing the top ten words of 2010.
There are no plans, however, to add it to the OED, Webster's or NOAD, or any standard dictionary. The Oxford University Press (OUP)says it must first become popular enough (unfriend, woty of 2009 has become popular enough and will be added to the OED).
OUPBlog-
http://blog.oup.com/2010/11/refudiate
OUP says Palin is not the first to use it, but don't say who that was.
(double-dip will certainly be added.)