Word of the Day

Word of the week

Sent in from Deb, the word of the week is:
“Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”
Definition: Fear of long words

PS.

Don’t ask us how to pronounce it!

Macquarie Dictonary

Have a little fun updating your vocab with our Word of the Day, kindly provided by Macquarie Dictonary. Find out what the most recent “buzz words” really mean and pass them on to your family and friends.

2007 Word of the Year goes to:

pod slurping
noun the downloading of large quantities of data to an MP3 player or memory stick from a computer.

In this increasingly tech-savvy world we live in, it seems pod slurping really is the new memory bank for us busy bees. Why carry around vast reams of documents, or CDs or anything for that matter, when you can download absolutely everything!

Pod slurping has an inventive and sensuous appeal. The committee felt that the most important criterion for word of the year should be linguistic creativity and evocativeness, rather than simple worthiness or usefulness. Pod slurping also dips its lid to pod, a potent little word of our times.

2007 The People’s Choice Award goes to:

password fatigue
noun a level of frustration reached by having too many different passwords to remember, resulting in an inability to remember even those most commonly used.

Password fatigue was the most popular word in the online voting, clearly registering a widespread dilemma of the online world.