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Grant Barrett’s Annual Words Of The Year
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Above: Grant Barrett, co-host of the public radio show "A Way With Words," leafs through a dictionary in this undated photo.
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Grant Barrett, co-host of public radio's A Way With Words, vice president, American Dialect Society.
Joanne Faryon speaks with Grant Barrett about the words of 2011.
Evening Edition airs weekdays at 5 PM and 6:30 PM on KPBS TV.
Grant Barrett's annual words of the year column in the New York Times features words and terms that floated into our consciousness in 2011. A few of the "new" words are:
Arab Spring
99 percenters
Deather
Kardash
9-9-9 Plan
Bath Salts
Human Megaphone
Twinkling
Planking
Winning
We'll find out what they mean, and whether they'll last or be forgotten. And we also discuss the words that have special meaning to San Diego.
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