A
telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of
the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days,
people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little
moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one.
“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to
create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford
University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of
the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PACand Eurogeddon,
shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the
Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford
English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles.
Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of
blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law
has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a
reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are
supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as
one observer
put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the
economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011,
at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary
additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related
terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting
back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of
sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a
post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re
free to goof off on Reddit all day. MORE: Thanks, Sarah Palin: ‘Refudiate’ Dubbed 2010 Word of the Year
Getty Images
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words
of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days,
people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little
moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one.
“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to
create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford
University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of
the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PACand Eurogeddon,
shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the
Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford
English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles.
Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of
blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law
has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a
reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are
supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as
one observer
put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the
economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011,
at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary
additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related
terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting
back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of
sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a
post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re
free to goof off on Reddit all day.
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing "words of the year"
A
telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of
the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days,
people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little
moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one.
“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to
create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford
University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of
the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
A
telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of
the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days,
people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little
moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one.
“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to
create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford
University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of
the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PACand Eurogeddon,
shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the
Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford
English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles.
Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of
blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law
has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a
reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are
supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as
one observer
put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the
economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011,
at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary
additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related
terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting
back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of
sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a
post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re
free to goof off on Reddit all day. MORE: Thanks, Sarah Palin: ‘Refudiate’ Dubbed 2010 Word of the Year
Getty Images
A telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words
of the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days,
people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little
moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one.
“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to
create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford
University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of
the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
(MORE: The 2011 Word of the Year: ‘Squeezed Middle’)
Runners-up included superstorm, super PACand Eurogeddon,
shorthand for the feared financial collapse of countries using the
Euro. Oxford Dictionaries, a trendy scion of the honorable Oxford
English Dictionary, also announced their British “Word of the Year”: omnishambles.
Officially defined as a situation “characterized by a string of
blunders and miscalculations,” this pithy counterpart to Murphy’s Law
has become a favorite in the U.K. for describing politics.
Last year, Oxford Dictionaries chose squeezed middle, a
reference to people between the super-rich and super-poor who are
supposed to be particularly vulnerable to financial shifts. It was, as
one observer
put it, a “sober list for sober times.” The phrase told us that the
economy, and the struggles it caused, were the number-one story in 2011,
at least so far as one band of wordsmiths was concerned.
So what does GIF tell us about 2012? Given that dictionary
additions and buzzword lists have been dominated by technology-related
terms in recent years, it may just be a sign that things are getting
back to normal. Of course, the runners-up bring a certain amount of
sobriety to the field. But the selection still seems to herald a
post-recession era — a world where instead of counting pennies, we’re
free to goof off on Reddit all day.
A
telling part of our modern recapping tradition is choosing “words of
the year.” In 1789, lexicographers probably would have gone with guillotine. In 1912, iceberg surely would have been a contender. And for 2012, Oxford Dictionaries settled on GIF.
That’s GIF the verb, derived from GIF the file extension. These days,
people often GIF snippets of movies or speeches to create funny little
moving pictures on Tumblrs like this one.
“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to
create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year,” notes Oxford
University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of
the 80s, it has never been trendier.” (You know, like Betty White.)
even years later, shortly after the Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Beckett returned to Germany, this time to conduct a grand tour of galleries and museums.
Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Susan Howe
Howe’s poems have appeared in Anthology of American Poetry, The Norton
Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and Poems for the Millennium. She
has received two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation
and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.
The 4th volume, The World of C.Y. Tung, contains an anthology of articles, letters, reports and speeches by C.Y. Tung. It also features various interviews with C.Y. Tung's friends and counterparts by Alice King, C.Y.'s eldest daughter, in the last four years. They are themselves valuable verbal history records. Commentaries on C.Y. from around the world are included to complement the collection.
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. — Jane Garmey.
an・thol・o・gy
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━━ n. 名詩選, 名文集, 詞華集. an・thol・o・gist ━━ n. その編者. an・thol・o・gize ━━ v. 詩文選を編む［に収録する］.
anthology noun[C] a collection of artistic works which have a similar form or subject, often those considered to be the best: an anthology of modern quotations/American verse This Bob Dylan anthology includes some rare recordings of his best songs. Compare omnibus (SEVERAL PARTS).omnibus(SEVERAL PARTS)tics noun[C] 1a book consisting of two or more parts that have already been published separately Compare anthology.
2UKa programme consisting of two or more parts that have already been broadcast separately: the omnibus edition of a soap opera
omnibus(TRANSPORT)Show phonetics noun[C]OLD USE a bus the man/woman on the Clapham omnibusUK OLD-FASHIONED an imaginary person whose opinions or ideas are considered to be typical of those of ordinary British people: The man on the Clapham omnibus probably knows nothing about Rwanda.
omnivore (ŏm'nə-vôr', -vōr') n.
An omnivorous person or animal.
One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
[From New Latin Omnivora, omnivores, from neuter pl. of Latin omnivorus, omnivorous. See omnivorous.]
Omnivorous(ŏm-nĭv'ər-əs) adj.
Eating both animal and vegetable foods.
Taking in everything available, as with the mind: an omnivorous reader.
[From Latin omnivorus : omni-, omni- + -vorus, -vorous.]
verbal(SPOKEN)Show phonetics adjective spoken rather than written: a verbal agreement/description/explanation Airport officials received a stream of verbal abuse from angry passengers whose flights had been delayed.
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. — Jane Garmey.
an・thol・o・gist ━━ n. その編者.
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