Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2015
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chris, in reply to
CampbellLive
I was tending towards Linger’s Flagging, but I think I prefer the message this sends.
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Tantalizing
Coq
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sorry
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Hebe,
I like quaxing, but it’s regional. Christchurch has equally good area-specific words, but they would mean nothing to the rest of NZ.
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Hebe,
Most New Zealanders
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Leafy
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Daesh has been making a late run.
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Edgelered is worth a nod, too!
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The word that has irritated me most this year is ‘rightsizing’ – political weasel speak for ‘you’re fired’.
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KOF. Though this one may not reach a crescendo until next year.
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James Littlewood*, in reply to
Christchurch has equally good area-specific words
Do tell.
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Don Reid, in reply to
I think Berm Gardener was a minister in Muldoon’s first cabinet.
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A couple of words I’ve heard enough of …
‘perjury’
‘match-fixing’
And something we now don’t have enough of … ‘advocacy journalism’
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Media-Party
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Sacha, in reply to
I like quaxing, but it’s regional.
hey it has even gone international, though the dolt who inspired it remains far too close to Auckland for anyone’s good.
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fleg
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Sacha, in reply to
Edgelered is worth a nod
wasn’t that last year? :)
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Is hosking attempting to kill quaxers?
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Sacha, in reply to
or inciting others to do so
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BenWilson, in reply to
I like quaxing, but it’s regional
Cantabrians can go quaxing if they want to. It’s probably even more popular there, being a flat city.
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Dominant
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Breathless children. From the Groser.
Because it was meant to annoy and it did, sums up the attitude of the current administration to critique.
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Mansplain
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Sacha, in reply to
so popular they don’t even have a name for it :)
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It probably doesn’t win the New Zealand WOTY, but “safe space”.
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