4:13PM Jess McGuire | Macquarie Dictionary is
already on the hunt for the new Word Of The Year.
It may be only four months since muffin top – “the fold of fat around the midriff, which spills over the top of tight-fitting pants” – was named the Macquarie Dictionary inaugural word of the year. But nominations are rolling in for the 2007 winner.
“I’ve already got quite a nice little bundle of suggestions on my desk,” said Sue Butler, editor of the dictionary, who with colleagues will prepare a shortlist to be put to a public vote.
It’s like Australian Idol, but with words!
Other phrases to catch her attention include: micro-blogging, happy-clappy and, especially since the despoliation of the Gwydir wetlands, Ramsar site, named after the Iranian town where a convention to protect such areas was signed.
Ms Butler spoke after the publication in London of the new Collins English Dictionary. Some of its new entries may be familiar. They include the Australian barbecue stopper, the American McMansions, the untraceable but possibly Australian Dykon, for a celebrity admired by lesbians, and the ubiquitous muffin top.
We managed to get ‘
sezbian‘ into a Neighbours script, for fucks sake. Sue Butler, we demand you embrace it! DEMAND! EMBRACE! SEZBIAN!
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