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Oxford Word of the Year 2008: Hypermiling

November 17, 2008 -- Filed under Saving money by Normand Miron

Every year the New Oxford American Dictionary prepares for the holidays by making its biggest announcement of the year: the Word of the Year. And the 2008 Word of the Year winner is: hypermiling!

This year finalists were:
frugalista – person who leads a frugal lifestyle, but stays fashionable and healthy by swapping clothes, buying second-hand, growing own produce, etc.

moofer – a mobile out of office worker – ie. someone who works away from a fixed workplace, via Blackberry/laptop/wi-fi etc. (also verbal noun, moofing)

topless meeting – a meeting in which the participants are barred from using their laptops, Blackberries, cellphones, etc.

toxic debt – mainly sub-prime debts that are now proving so disastrous to banks. They were parceled up and sent around the global financial system like toxic waste, hence the allusion.




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