A lot more to memorize. Here they are :
Shellacking. Refudiate. Junk shot. Belieber. Fat-finger. Double-rainbow.
"I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like that", (President Obama in one of dunno-when-speech). "If a boxer got really badly beaten up in the ring, you could say he got shellacked. From sports it went into politics," explains Ben Zimmer, NY Times Magazine's "On Language" columnist.
What about "refudiate"? This time, it's Sarah Palin's contribution. The word is a combinations between "refute" and "repudiate", which both mean "deny". Mrs. Palin said "Shakespeare created words". Hmmm, she should add "Why can't I ?" =p. Well, there are a couple differences between Shakespeare and Sarah Palin :)).
Besides politicians, things occurred within a year have put significant words additions to the society. Remember BP's oil spill ? It has bequeathed "junk shot". 16-year-old former You Tube sensation Justin Bieber has way too creative fans who made "belieber" as a combo words between "believer" plus "bieber". When the stock market's value flopped because someone was mistakenly typed "million" instead of "billion", we got "fat-finger". Finally, "double-rainbow" expresses the hope of finding science's optimism and breakthrough from viral video uploaded by Paul Vasquez in earlier 2010. Whew, what a year :D !
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