(Thanks to Stuart D for the link)
What a crushing anticlimax! We wait 1,500 years to welcome the millionth word into the English language, with the champagne on ice and the fatted calf slain and oven-ready for the newcomer’s arrival.
Then at long last it appears, snuggling into the crisp white space we’ve cleared for it in the dictionary . . . and it turns out to be an outrageous impostor.
I mean, I ask you: ‘Web 2.0′? Do you call that a word? In my book, it’s no more a word than ‘Bog 43.7′.
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Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.
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