Interview on “At Issue with Ben Merens” (Wisconsin Public Radio) on the notable words of 2011. (Dec. 13, 2011)
The following are just some of the new words of 2011 – supercommittee, occupy, Arab spring, winning, planking and narb. After five, join Ben Merens and his guest as they discuss the words of 2011. What new words did you hear this year? Guest: Ben Zimmer, executive producer, VisualThesaurus.com and Vocabulary.com. Language columnist, The Boston Globe. Former “On Language” columnist, The New York Times Magazine. Formerly editor, American dictionaries, Oxford University Press. Chair, New Words Committee, American Dialect Society.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Word Routes column, Boston Globe column)