“For example, last year’s selection for 2009 was ‘tweet’; 2008’s choice was ‘subprime’; and 2007 was ‘bailout,'” Hamill reports. There are several other prominent organizations that choose their own Word of the Year, such as Merriam-Webster, which already chose ‘austerity’ as its word in 2010, and the New Oxford American Dictionary, which chose “refudiate.”
Hamill reports, “But the dialect society has been choosing its WOTY, as it’s known among its voting members, the longest, since 1990…”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “James W.” for the heads up.]
I didn’t hear the word “app” before iPhone actually..
I would have guessed it would have been “Fred Mertz”.
Actually, I remember back in 1999 how my friends and I talked about how Napster was the current “killer app”.
@BurningZeppelin
That is because in PC world the word used is “program”. Outside MS it was “application”. Of course some people used the terms in the other environment. The term “applet” was used in Java for a small application. The terms were just abbreviated until the app became it’s own word. iOS was the first time the term became mainstream, but it was not new.
Pity. They took the PC way out. New Oxford American Dictionary got it right. It’s “refudiate.”
They nailed it right!!
Congratulatons!
@Cubert
Fred Mertz has entered the iconography of MDN news feeds.
Fred Mertz, you da man!
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The American Dialect Society probably hasn’t met a ‘Doze machine it doesn’t like.
In the olden days, when widgets were desk accessories, they were described as small applications or small apps.
For years, Apple has had it’s own vocabulary that distinguished it from the Wintel world. App instead of program, logic board instead of motherboard. The ascendency of “app” suggests the increasing mid share that Apple is enjoying as the Wintel world declines.
Oops. “mid share” should have been “mind share”
[That is because in PC world the word used is “program”. Outside MS it was “application”.]
I remember the good ole days when we’d get mocked by WinTrolls for saying “application” instead of “program”.
Good times.
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Now all the bandwagoners are spouting “apps”. I just see eyes that need poking.
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In fact the first use of “app” was in the NeXT computer…
That said… all Macs now and iPhones and iPads and iPods (touch) ARE actually NeXT computers!
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