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'Unfriend' named Word of the Year

What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. Each year, Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year. Finalists for 2009 also included netbook, which is a small laptop, and sexting, which is sending sexually explicit texts and pictures by cell phone. (AP)

Shukan ST: NOVEMBER 27, 2009

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World News 'Unfriend' named Word of the Year What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. Each year, Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year. Finalists for 2009 also included netbook, which is a small laptop, and sexting, which is sending sexually explicit texts and pictures by cell phone. (AP) Shukan ST: NOVEMBER 27, 2009 (C) All rights reserved