WOTY 2006: THE NOMINATIONS CONTINUE! Here are more nominations for the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year 2006. Once again, you can find the definitions via the ADS website.

So far Pluto/dwarf planet/planet/etc. is looking like a real contender! (The American Name Society will pick its Name of the Year, too--and I figure Pluto is likely the name to beat.) Also looking strong: Islamo-. I question sudden Jihad syndrome not only because it makes me uncomfortable but because it seems to have been used mainly by one person...with much of its subsequent "usage" merely citing that one person's usage. At least that appeared to be the situation months ago.

From David Barnhart of Lexik House:

boomeritis
blognut/moonbat/wingnut
Clark Clifford moment
e-voting
Islamo-
jumping vote
partial continuous attention
planet
Rumsfeldian
sudden Jihad syndrome (SJS)

From Ben Zimmer of Oxford University Press:

auf
blook
brokeback
clickprint/clickstream
climate canary
climate refugee
dwarf planet/pluton/plutonoid
ego-surfing/ego-googling/ego-feed
fauxtography
Fed-Ex
firecrotch
fishapod
Freying
Hamastan
lancing
mancation
moonwalk
pink taco
pornament
purple drank/lean
rapture right/rapture rightist/rapture righter
SMiShing
statement ring
turkey peek
waterboarding

Here's an article about all this.

Previous coverage is here.