From Fresh Air, from WHYY on National Public Radio
What's The Word? How English Evolved This Decade
Linguist and regular Fresh Air essayist Geoff Nunberg says there's something to be learned from looking the new words that entered the lexicon in the last decade.
(Here's a sampling of such additions from the 2006 update of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.)
Nunberg teaches at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley. He's the author of The Way We Talk Now, Going Nucular and Talking Right.