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'Unfriend', 2009 Word of the Year Winner

posted by Nick Cifuentes @ Monday, November 16, 2009 - 5:45 PM
Drum roll please...

Oxford Dictionary has announced its "word of the year" winner, and to no one's surprise, they came through with a social media related term..."unfriend", your new 2009 award winner.

The definition reads as followed "To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.”

Over the past few years, dictionary makers have seemed to jump at announcing social media related terms as the new words that deserve the recognition treatment. "Twitter" was announced by the Collins English Dictionary earlier this year as a new entrant, and "Facebook" was the word of the year back in the end of 2007.

And according to the dictionary's blog, other terms that were under consideration this year included hashtag, sexting, funemployed, tramp stamp, intexticated and birther....hmm?

(Photo courtesy of SocialSignal.com)

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