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By: Marketing Online Common Sense » Top 10 Buzzwords in 2008

[...] online resources where these trendy phrases come from: Oxford Word of the Year 2008, Doubletongued.com, and most news [...]

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By: Terminologia etc. » Blog » Cinepanettoni e parole dell’anno 2008

[...] poi trovato divertente il neologismo topless meeting, visto nella classifica americana dell’Oxford Univeristy Press: è una riunione a cui è proibito portare i laptop. Non sarebbe male applicare...

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By: Increase Your Gas Mileage With Improved Driving | Pay4Rides

[...] consumption.  Well, I recently learned that the New Oxford Dictionary announced hypermiling as the 2008 word of the year.  They discuss the history of the word, some of the methods and positive...

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By: Hypermiling Gets Mileage as Word of the Year | TakePart Social Action...

[...] Well, the New Oxford American Dictionary has decided to make hypermiling all the more official, as it is the 2008 Word of the Year.  Says the Oxford University Press blog: “Hypermiling” was...

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By: Marjan blogi » Congrats Marja! You are not a n00b!

[...] taho. Oxford University Press kertoo Oxford American Dictionaryn valinneen vuoden 2008 voittajaksi hypermilingin, mutta paljon hauskempi oli mielestäni topless meeting – a meeting in which the...

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By: What is a Frugalista and why does she tip? « Frugalista Tips

[...] – Oxford University Press Blog, November 2008 [...]

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By: One Millionth English Word Controversy « Livca's Blog

[...] Hypermiling- New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2008 Word of the Year  [...]

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By: jane

I’m happy to know that I have been hypermile-ing for the last 60 years.

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By: Re:Generator Magazine » Blog Archive »…Of the year

[...] New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is hypermiling. It’s no “w00t,” but it will do. The term hypermiling refers to the practice of [...]

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By: Re:Generator Magazine » Blog Archive » Final verdict: 2008 not so 200gr8

[...] Person of the Year was obvious, but hard to ignore. The New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year was less obvious, but it made sense when you thought about [...]

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By: How I “Hypermiled” Myself Up To Seattle « The Non-Consumer Advocate

[...] is the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2008 word of the [...]

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By: Word of the Year: an unreliable yet fascinating barometer of tech

[...] hypermiling, for instance. 2008’s word, relevant and rich at the time, seems positively archaic now; as electrics and more efficient [...]

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By: UNFRIEND « IT'S A GRIND COFFEE HOUSE | DALLAS

[...] 2008, the Word of the Year was hypermiling, and in 2007, locovore. Other WOTY front-runners considered this year by Oxford University Press [...]

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By: Social Media Popularity Reflected in 2009 Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year

[...] year Oxford gave the gift of hypermiling but that didn’t take us very far at all.  However, this year is different — social [...]

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By: Oxford’s Word of the Year: Unfriend « No Happy Medium

[...] OUP chose “hypermiling” last year. I’ve never heard anyone use this word. Have you? I can get behind 2007’s selection of “locavore” even as it makes me cringe, or carbon neutral and podcast the...

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By: To befriend or to unfriend. Is that really the question? « Editing...

[...] has the same longevity as its most recent predecessors. I’ve never heard anyone use 2008’s ‘hypermiling’ (making adjustments to one’s car or one’s driving techniques to maximise fuel-consumption)...

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By: Bilety lotnicze

topless meeting – I usually refered to that as a silent meeting – i guess though everybody is free to use their own “words”.

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By: Word(s) of the Year « Harmless Drudge

[...] you visit the blog post announcing the WotY and look through the finalists and shortlist, you see many words that strike [...]

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By: women's lingerie

topless meeting is my favourite one (((:, truely I couldn`t imagine to attend any meeting without my laptop or even iPhone, I feel naked without them (: Greg.

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By: OUPblog » Blog Archive »“Refudiate this, word snobs!”

[...] with truthiness and bootylicious anytime soon, but could refudiate join the ranks of unfriend, hypermiling, and locavore as the 2010 Oxford Word of the [...]

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