UNFRIEND IN THE OED

By ALEX PASTERNACK

Just as we were still getting used to not! and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the Oscars for words apparently took place over the weekend and chose a new Best Picture: unfriend. Explains the judges, the Oxford English Dictionary, “To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook” (which was itself WOTY in 2007). Meanwhile, the Olde English Dictionary went with the more standard term, Whopper Sacrifice.

Read more of Alex’s review of the word Oscars on Motherboard.tv

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