December 16, 2009
Kerry Maxwell, author of the Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord articles, casts her eye over the noughties and the words that defined each year.
Don’t forget: Macmillan Dictionary and Onestopenglish have teamed up for a Christmas special for teachers in the month of December!
1999 (December)
Downed a few alcopops when we proposed a toast to the noughties. My [...]
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March 24, 2009
A new article, written by Kerry Maxwell for Macmillan Dictionary Online, looks at how the English lexicon benefits from the current global financial crisis.
Excerpt: In January 2009, the American Dialect Society, a prestigious group of scholars and linguists, held its 19th annual vote, crowning bailout as its overall ‘Word of the Year’ for 2008. Given [...]
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