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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word of the Year - and Decade!

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  • Hebe, in reply to Sacha,

    honestly, folk angling for a ‘Words from Last Century’ category… :)

    Whippersnapper.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to BenWilson,

    Another one: If you don’t eat your crusts, your hair won’t curl

    For strange reason, no-one EVER said that to me at any time. My curls have always rampaged wildly and tendrilled out to capture whatever is near...

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Ross Mason,

    "Where ya goin Dad?"
    "Up the River Onions"
    "Why Dad?
    "Going to get a wigwam etc" or "see a man about a horse".

    "Eat ya veges! There's people starving out there ya know".

    "Don't do that, I'll spifflicate you!"

    I'm jake. How about you?"
    "Fair to middling".
    "Choice!"

    "Strewth! Rattle ya dags."
    Whoa...Taihoa for a mo willya".

    Grouse.
    Bugger.
    Geez Wayne.
    By Hokey!

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh, in reply to Ross Mason,

    Grouse.
    Bugger.
    Geez Wayne.

    My dad seemed to like grouse and geez Wayne when he was less old. I'm pretty sure I would've heard geez Wayne from the telly when I was an ankle biter, but I'm not quite old enough to actually remember that phrase from any mouth other then my dad's.

    'Bugger' is old fashioned now?! Bugger.

    "By hook or by crook". I seem to remember my mum using that a lot.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Okay ... last chance. Provisional lists before they go off to Hadyn to get prepared for voting. I might drop a few more for the sake of simplicity:

    WOTY

    "100% Pure"
    batshit
    frankenstorm
    Novopay
    Baumgartner
    boson
    brainfade
    breach
    Brownleebensraum
    buggerising
    cloud
    complicated
    cyber-marae
    Democracy
    Dotcomnishambles
    Drone
    EPO
    Fetching
    Fiscal Cliff
    Flibbertigibberish
    Fracking
    Gangnam Style
    Gay red top
    Geotech CERA
    hacker
    Hashtag
    Hobbit
    hub
    Kiosk.
    Supermoon
    Renewal.
    Leak. Ng.
    Leveson
    Mahy
    Marmageddon
    neo-crusader
    Great Recession
    Android
    crowdsourcing
    leaks
    illiberal democracy
    Ng’ed
    Novopay
    Omnishambles
    Fustercluck
    Planet Key
    Pop-up shop
    proletard
    reach
    rejuvenate
    Relaxed
    Romneysia
    Smartphone
    Suboptimal
    unrebuttable
    Weather-bomb
    Wheedled
    YOLO

    WOTD

    “War on …”
    9/11
    Android
    Anecdata
    Blog”
    blogosphere
    broadband
    Bubble
    Climate
    Data
    download
    fauxpology
    fuckeulogy
    GFC
    Google.
    Facebook
    Twitter
    i
    IP
    iPhone
    Like
    meh
    mobile
    monetise
    MSM
    Obama
    P
    pirates
    privacy
    roflnui
    social media
    sub-prime
    terrorist.
    torrent, copyright and insurgent
    truthiness
    tweet
    warming
    wiki
    WMDs

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Russell Brown,

    WOTY entry: Capture. It has lit my life this year (real).

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Hebe,

    WOTY entry: Capture

    someone did nominate it upthread

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Ross Mason,

    spifflicate

    Heh.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Stu Woodbridge,

    Twatcock doesn't make it to WOTD?

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 4 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Stu Woodbridge,

    Twatcock doesn’t make it to WOTD?

    Good call. It does now.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Bart Janssen, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Twatcock doesn’t make it to WOTD?

    Good call. It does now.

    I used the word twatcock at a journal club and then had to explain the reasoning behind it (it was fairly obvious what it meant:)).

    Anyway the student LOVED it and declared her intent to use it in future. I think that's a PAS success story :).

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 4461 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Bart Janssen,

    I used the word twatcock at a journal club and then had to explain the reasoning behind it

    I missed that one: is it equal opportunity profanity? Where did it originate?

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Hebe,

    never mind the beginning, look where it ended up

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    I really love twatcock - it is an equal-opportunity insult and deserves to be WORD OF THE DECADE- yes!

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Sacha,

    never mind the beginning, look where it ended up

    Oh, well played.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Russell Brown,

    a missed opportunity, methinks

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Hebe,

    I missed that one: is it equal opportunity profanity? Where did it originate?

    It was the Public Address readers' Word of the Year 2010! From the press release, which was titled 'We are all twatcocks now':

    Public Address founder Russell Brown says the result demonstrated the Public Address reader community’s enduring fondness for neologisms. Like 2007 winner “Te Qaeda” and 2008 finalist “rofflenui”, “twatcock” is a portmanteau word.

    Brown says the word, coined by Wellington Public Address reader Tom Beard in the course of a discussion about former Breakfast host Paul Henry, was adopted by other readers two months before the Word of the Year voting was opened.

    “Sometimes only a crude sexual insult will do the job, but our reader community determined the need for such an insult that carried no undue weight or implication of gender,” says Brown.

    “For obvious reasons, this isn’t necessarily an easy thing to achieve. It has eluded well-meaning but foul-mouthed PC liberals for decades. But in conjoining the two time-honoured genitally-based insults, ‘twat’ and ‘cock’, Tom Beard has hewn something new and compelling from the original raw elements.”

    John Drinnan was unimpressed:

    A sign of the times. In the online world the trendy folk of Public Address voted recently for a sexual insult "twatcock" as its word of the year.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Russell Brown,

    ” well-meaning but foul-mouthed PC liberals"

    Succinct PAS commenter profile there :-) Count me in . Te Qaeda is grouse too.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Russell Brown,

    "the Public Address reader community’s enduring fondness for neologisms"

    On that basis I'm going for cyber-marae. That is brilliant.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Hebe,

    earlier than last decade, however

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Sacha,

    I dont read the kind of material you offered in support of that - all I know is - it sounded right for here & I had never read it before (but as a writer, I would never claim outright ownership for a neologism - because someone is coining them, all the time-)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Sacha,

    Bugger. I admit to starting on email four years ago; internet use about three. I have much to learn.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Islander,

    the kind of material you offered in support of that

    worth a go - Lisa Reihana el at

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Hilary Stace,

    On reflection, my personal word of the decade is 'autism'. Dominated the decade for me. PAS has also given it a bit of attention one way and another.

    Wgtn • Since Jun 2008 • 3229 posts Report Reply

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