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Original Post: `Unfriend' named Word of the Year in New Oxford American Dictionary
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MELBOURNE - The New Oxford American Dictionary has named 'unfriend', which means deleting a friend from a site such as Facebook, as its word of the year.
Oxford University Press USA revealed in a blog post that 'unfriend', a verb, had beaten netbook, sexting, paywall, birther and death panel for the honour.
"Unfriend has real lex-appeal," the [...]