Smart-words 2011
404: Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found” meaning that the requested document could not be located. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the “adminisphere” are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. [...]
The Words of the Year – NY Times
Words That Made the Year, Compiled by Grant Barrett (Read the full article) Pop Culture belieber: A fan of Justin Bieber, the Canadian pop singer who also spawned … the Justin Bieber: A haircut also known as the flip and switch, the flow, or the twitch. Now driving parents crazy everywhere. G.T.L.: For “gym, tan, laundry,” the life [...]