{"id":299,"date":"2009-07-20T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2009-07-28T21:35:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T21:35:25","slug":"lexpionage-and-other-new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/lexpionage-and-other-new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexpionage and other new words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wordspy.jpg\" alt=\"Wordspy\" title=\"Wordspy\" width=\"73\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-301\" \/>One of my favourite sites on the web is <a href=\"www.wordspy.com\">Word Spy<\/a>, \u201cthe word lover\u2019s guide to new words\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The site\u2019s been running since at least the mid-90\u2019s, as far as I can tell, and provides an interesting historical glance of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzzword\">buzzwords<\/a> through the times. If you click on the link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/topwords.asp\">\u2018Top 100 posts\u2019<\/a> for example, it gives you a rundown of the top hundred most-visited words from the past seven days. When I checked, such diverse notions as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/Wikipediakid.asp\">&#8220;Wikipedia kid&#8221;<\/a> (added June 30 2009), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/tankini.asp\">&#8220;tankini&#8221;<\/a> (March 23 2000) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/nanny-cam.asp\">&#8220;nanny-cam&#8221;<\/a> (March 5 1996) appeared on the list. <\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the word will give you a definition, example citation and earliest citation, as well as a list of related words and categories. Whilst I would say that a lot of the words on the site appear to be more trendy than useful and will most likely disappear from usage as quickly as they have appeared, it\u2019s definitely amusing to see what writers will come up with. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one of my favourite words from the site is from its founder, whose bio on his <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wordspy\">Twitter page<\/a> states: \u201cWord Spy is devoted to &#8220;lexpionage,&#8221; the sleuthing of new words and phrases\u201d. \u201cLexpionage\u201d. Brilliant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite sites on the web is Word Spy, \u201cthe word lover\u2019s guide to new words\u201d. The site\u2019s been running since at least the mid-90\u2019s, as far as I can tell, and provides an interesting historical glance of buzzwords through the times. If you click on the link \u2018Top 100 posts\u2019 for example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44],"tags":[139,31,140,138],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology","category-words","tag-history","tag-twitter","tag-wikipedia","tag-wordspy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}