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Omnishambles, smirting and amazeballs: we should embrace new words, even if they are ridiculous
With Collins inviting the public to submit entries for its latest dictionary last week, new words – or neologisms – are a hot topic at the moment. This year has been a particularly fertile one for them, starting in April with Ed Milliband’s use of omnishambles in Prime Minister’s Question Time. Since then there seems to have been an unstoppable barrage of newly-minted and mostly annoying items of vocabulary.
By Lee Williams | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 1:00 am
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