"What is most odd is I've never heard "unfriend" ever. I hear "defriend" all the time used in that context though. Either Websters is out of touch or I am. :)"
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2009 word of the year
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kev Nov 25, 2009. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Somebody just mentioned at a workshop by Steve that the 2009 Word of the Year is: unfriend.unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.…Continue
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Roland Gesthuizen replied to Roland Gesthuizen's discussion 2009 word of the year"Interesting Alline .. the very Australian expression Fair Dinkum used describe something that is true has it's origin in the Chinese on our Gold Fields in the 1850's
http://melbourne.metblogs.com/2006/08/17/fair-dinkum-indeed/"
Alline Sada replied to Roland Gesthuizen's discussion 2009 word of the year"My students are native Spanish speakers, you'd be amazed how many of these words end up in our everyday language (a few have even made it into our Spanish dictionaries!)
In the dieting, slim-fast era of the late 80s and 90s happened, we ended…"
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Somebody just mentioned at a workshop by Steve that the 2009 Word of the Year is: unfriend.unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/unfriend/ and http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2270425051&topic=3819Not only is it fascinating to observe how…See More
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