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Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9068
Moderator
Public Address Word of the Year 2008
What'll it be, customers? Last year, Public Address readers voted "Te Qaeda" as the Word of the Year 2007, followed by "sub-prime" and "it's business time". As ever, you're invited to nominate and debate words for 08 here, in advance of a final online vote. And along the way, there'll be two cases of wine from Vavasour going to the cleverest amongst you.
Graeme Edgeler
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1509
Change?
Hope?
[something far wittier]
Heather W.
From: North Shore
Since: Nov 2008
Posts: 152
Roflolnui.
Sam F
From: Morningside, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1188
"Rofflenui" or variants thereof must be in the running somewhere.
Heather W.
From: North Shore
Since: Nov 2008
Posts: 152
Trust / Change
Trust change
Change trusts
Richard Llewellyn
From: Mt Albert
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 358
maverick
Newsprint
From: Wellington
Since: Mar 2008
Posts: 42
obamania
my most loathed phrase: going forward
Gareth Ward
From: Auckland, NZ
Since: Mar 2007
Posts: 1379
Bailout
Porcine-Lipstick
Lyndon Hood
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 861
Special spectacular-failure award for "slippery"
Lyndon Hood
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 861
"Change" does neatly combine what people voted for and what financial institutions are now worth...
giovanni tiso
From: Wellington
Since: Jun 2007
Posts: 4393
Another vote for Rofflenui here.
Caleb D'Anvers
From: Somewhere in Buckinghamshire
Since: Mar 2008
Posts: 299
I've been totally obsessed with the word Obamacon for about six months now. Try slipping it into normal conversation: it freaks people out.
Kebabette
From: Christchurch
Since: Feb 2007
Posts: 47
I reckon every fashion/design article I've read this year has said "bang on trend". It's godawful and it's everywhere.
LegBreak
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1095
Meltdown
Most overused word, anyway.
simon g
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 536
infrastructure
It's the new answer to every question (previously "tax cuts").
Sam F
From: Morningside, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1188
Liquidity, liquidity, there's nothing like liquidity...
Graeme Edgeler
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1509
infrastructure
It's the new answer to every question (previously "tax cuts").
I could check, but I'm pretty sure it's now __infa__structure.
Sam F
From: Morningside, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1188
I could check, but I'm pretty sure it's now __infa__structure.
Yup, New Zullund English has made its mark on that one.
James Green
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 579
If I could spell how how John Key says New Zealand, then I'd nominate that. It's more subtle than "mainstream New Zealander" ala Brash, but I think it serves largely the same meaning.
Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1311
Another John Keyism: "fentestic". It's what he uses when he's trying to praise something he doesn't really understand. Like the Kiwis winning the league: that was a fentestic effort.
You may also see this pop up in work emails, spelt "fantastic". Example "I would like to congratulate the team on the fantastic sales results for 2008."
Fentestic.
Zippy Gonzales
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 163
Helicopter. Helicopter parents, helicopter Winston, helicopter Ben Bernanke.
simon g
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 536
"fentestic"
Key is South African? The Herald's unauthorised biography glossed over that part.
Lyndon Hood
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 861
Liquidity, liquidity, there's nothing like liquidity...
... Our Dollars are entirely bucked;
Our Pounds are lacking quiddity.
In Commerce (and in Finance to)
The balance sheets look fair:
But when the try to operate -
Liquidity's not there!
Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1311
Here's another one: Current Economic Situation.
We're not really sure what it is or how it will effect us, but we do know that it is quite bad, and might be worse, but also might not.
In years to come, we'll tell our grandkiddies, "I lived through two Gulf Wars and the Current Economic Situation!" And they'll all be like "woteva, grandma".
LegBreak
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1095
Not quite as annoying as Current Economic Climate though.
Renee Jones
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4
Beached as
Greg Dawson
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 32
Just plain "Credit"
JCDC
Since: May 2007
Posts: 4
smiling assasin
WS
From: Christchurch
Since: May 2007
Posts: 8
" you know what ?"
I KNOW ..not a word, but another Americanism slipping in, listen to americans use it to precede a reply( "no i DON'T know what ! thats why i'm bloody well asking you ! " ) , like the odious "like".... it'll be here soon enough - going forward.
richard maclean
From: wellington
Since: Nov 2008
Posts: 1
icon going forward
elsketcho
From: Auckland
Since: Aug 2007
Posts: 27
poogate
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