WORD OF THE YEAR 2007: NOMINATIONS

Here are three sets of nominations from members of the American Dialect Society for Word of the Year 2007, to be determined tomorrow. You can get more details by following the links.

From David Barnhart:

by-stander effect
breeder document
CFL
chipmunking
congestion fee
cringe reading
crowd sourcing
cut and walk
dwell time
e-mailitis
evo-devo
Facebook
format-agnostic
geofencing
Green Monday
Green Tuesday
mash-up
MRSA
no-e-mail Friday
no-match letter
Oprah effect
parkour
quorum sensing
Waldo (play Waldo or place where's Waldo)
Zumba

From Grant Barrett:

astronaut diaper
atmospherics
bacn
bitch
boot camp flu
boom (left of boom and right of boom)
chief sustainability officer
colony collapse disorder
crowdsource
drama-price
draw-down
email bankruptcy
earmarxist
exaflood
exploding ARM
forever stamp
FTW
global weirding
gorno
guap
-hawk
ho
hooter-hider
hypermile
hyphenate
I-reporter
islamofascism
jailbreak
kinnear
liar's loan/liar loan
life-stream
lip dub
lolcat
lopomo
make it rain
maternal profiling
meat tag
mobisode
mom job (mommy makeover)
multi-dad
nappy-headed ho
Navy shower
nigger, death of
NINJA
nose bidet
pap
pecha-kucha
phonemarking
post-kinetic environment
rape stand
rick-roll
scratch and dent loan
side boob
smeet
show-runner
Super-Duper Tuesday
splurge (for troop surge)
subprime
Tivoization
toe-tapper
truther
Tsunami Tuesday
tumblelog
va-j-j/va-jay-jay/vajayjay
vegansexual
walkshed
waterboarding
wide stance, to have a
windshield cowboy

From Wayne Glowka:

The Big Rip
Bom Chicka Wah Wah
celbutard
connectile disfunction
cornhole
Don't tase me, bro!
fenjoozler
flying Lincoln bedroom
General Betray Us
Global Warming
Googlegänger
Happy Kwanhanamas!
Hill-Bill
human terrain team
nappy headed ho's
nurdle
roboho
strand-in
squirt
Sushi
Truther
two-car insurance seminar

As for my own nominations, I'm adding

caging
shopdropping

to my list:

belief tank
botnet
chemo brain
efforting
favorited
glutened
Juneuary
mumblecore/mumblecorps
permalancer
PowerPoint Ranger
rehab
school shooter
shipper
-tard
vajayjay
yoga stick