Interview on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” about Sarah Palin’s use of “refudiate,” and other invented words.
Ben Zimmer, the On Language columnist for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, discusses recent invented words: from Sarah Palin’s recent use of the word “refudiate,” to words like “ginormous,” which have become part of the popular lexicon.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Word Routes column)