Interview on “The Conversation” with Ross Reynolds (KUOW Seattle) about new words that people love and hate. (Apr. 4, 2011)
Hang around the proverbial office water cooler these days and you hear words like ‘ginormous’ or ‘chillax.’ What new words do you love? What words do you hate? And what’s the dividing line between slang and conventional English in 2011? Does someone need to call the language police? We’ll take your phone calls and talk about words with language guru Ben Zimmer.
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