http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 23 May 2013 10:09:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/24/omnishambles-smirting-and-amazeballs-we-should-embrace-new-words-even-if-they-are-ridiculous/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/24/omnishambles-smirting-and-amazeballs-we-should-embrace-new-words-even-if-they-are-ridiculous/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:08 +0000 Lee Williams http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26695 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.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/24/omnishambles-smirting-and-amazeballs-we-should-embrace-new-words-even-if-they-are-ridiculous/feed/ 6