'Refudiate' might eventually be listed in dictionaries

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Summer" is not even a word. That's something no one can "refudiate."

Sarah Palin's attempt to splice "refute" and "repudiate" on a news show and in a Twitter message in July sparked more searches on the publisher's online dictionary during the summer than most real words did. But don't expect all the interest in "refudiate" to lead to an actual dictionary entry.

... "I think people immediately knew what she was trying to say because the words 'refute' and 'repudiate' were also being looked up very, very frequently," said John Morse, Merriam-Webster's president and publisher.

... "Will 'refudiate' get in the dictionary? Time will tell," Morse said. "Lexicographers are not good fortune tellers, so even if I had a theory, that wouldn't make it true."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/07/national/a090337D69.DTL&tsp=1

[emulatorloo]

1. I give up.

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Hopefully, I'll be long dead before that happens.

Sorry, but I couldn't handle such a wholesale mangling of English. Skateboarder and texter slang is bad enough...

[NC_Nurse]

3. Great. More validation for the stupidest pundit around.

Sheesh. I guess her going away would be too much to hope for. Ever.

Damn.

[El Supremo]

4. When will we ever return to "normalcy"?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Why not?

We're all fucked anyway.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I think we're misunderestimating that woman.

[CoffeeCat]

7. Why not make idiocy our national dance?

Seriously.

Palin is stupid. And people are considering validating and legitimizing that stupidity.

Lovely.

[Warpy]

8. As what? A synonym for

"LOOK AT ME, EVERYBODY! I'M STUPID!"

[Capitalocracy]

9. Refudiate. Verb.

(Origin: Twitterese)
1. What peaceful Muslims should do to other peaceful Muslims who build basketball courts too close to sites of attacks by fundamentalist Islamic terrorists, only applicable during a Democratic presidency.
2. (Elizabethan) A Shakespearean term meaning to hunt moose while wearing lipstick.

[Old Troop]

10. Do you think she might be trying to ACT stupid? Or is she trying the

"homespun" schitck?

[hlthe2b]

11. After Webster added "NOOKULAR" as an alternative pronunciation

for nuclear on behalf of that moron, Bush*, I knew it was all over. :eyes:

Noah Webster, must be rolling in the grave.

[customerserviceguy]

12. Jimmy Carter used that as his pronunciation of the word, as well

And Noah Webster is in his grave, because unlike the English language, he's not living.

[hlthe2b]

13. Jimmy Carter earned the right...

he was, after all a nuclear physicist.

Living language implies our language continually adds new words... Giving into a process that formalizes mispronunciation to appease one or more groups is a bit different.

So, why the snark, csg? Is this a sensitive point for you?

[customerserviceguy]

15. I was just trying to make the point

that language, including pronunciation, changes over time in a living language. It wasn't just Dubya who used that pronunciation.

Regional dialects give rise to alternative pronunciations of an agreed-upon word all the time. I didn't intend it to be snarky. I find plenty to blame Bush for, but massacring the English language is not the worst of his crimes.

[hlthe2b]

16. ".....Not the worst of his crimes..."

On that, we can certainly agree.

[MineralMan]

14. Oh, it's already in some dictionaries.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Refudiate

Some very entertaining definitions there.