The word of the year, according to the American Dialect Society, is:
red/blue/purple states (further explanation unnecessary)
though I have to say that "urban archipelago" may turn out to be the word that best covers the insight from this year's election returns.
Voted the most outragous was:
santorum: the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
Not bad - a lesson in ehmm biology and dialect at the same time. As it turns out, there's a whole movement to make this term stick (so to speak) in order to soil (so to speak) Senator Rick Santoro's name for his obsessive and detailed talk about sex between two males (even though he apparently is against it - the sex, I mean, but probably also the use of his last name).
The ADS voted it in, but noted that newspapers were unlikely to carry it, and they were right. So now it's up to the blogosphere. I'm doing my part in the interest of free speech.
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