Dictionary.com puts up its words of the year

ANOTHER DICTIONARY is climbing on the word of the year bandwagon - the latest culprit being dictionary.com, which presents us with every month of the year's "prominent or new" word, according to its "logs".

Some of these aren't exactly new.

For example, in April, its word of the month was "nappy". As Paul Hales and many another Brit knows, a nappy collects the waste products of a baby. Hopefully.

In October, its word of the month was "fire", in November "steroids" and in December "subprime mortgage".

The Oxford English Dictionary has just added a whole new series of words such as "clap skate", "cotch" and "kabloona".

Chambers introduces us to "pack-year", which apparently is a measure of how many fags someone has smoked in her or his lifetime.

Cambridge's "word of the day" is "light-fingered", which doesn't mean you use your finger to light up your fag. [That's enough big dicks, Ed.] µ

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