OUP USA 2010 Word of the Year: Refudiate

'Refudiate' Oxford's word of the year
Published: Nov. 16, 2010 at 1:51 PM Wasilla, Alaska, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The New Oxford American Dictionary has picked "refudiate," a word former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin used on her Twitter feed, as word of the year. Oxford said there is evidence of the word being used prior to Palin's Twitter postings, but it was her use that brought the word widespread attention. The word was chosen over 10 others on the short list, including "bankster," a predatory banking professional; "Crowdsourcing," using a ...

Refudiate, Sarah Palins Made Up Word, Named Word Of The Year
An unquestionable buzzword in 2010, the word refudiate instantly evokes the name of Sarah Palin, who tweeted her way into a flurry of media activity when she used the word in certain statements posted on Twitter. Critics pounced on Palin, lampooning what they saw as nonsensical vocabulary and speculating on whether she meant “refute” or “repudiate.” From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used “refudiate,” we have co...

Sarah Palin's "Refudiate" Named Word of the Year
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (Credit: AP) Sarah Palin may have been on the receiving end of quite a bit of mockery when she inadvertently coined the term "refudiate" last July, but now the former Alaska Governor is getting her due - kind of. The New Oxford American Dictionary has named "refudiate" 2010's Word of the Year. Palin introduced the term into the American lexicon last July when she used it in a Tweet about the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near the World Trade Center site i...

Sarah Palin's 'refudiate' named dictionary's word of the year
The day after 5 million viewers watched Sarah Palin ’s Reality TV show and in the same week she announced a nationwide book tour, Alaska’s high-profile former Governor has gained some further unexpected publicity.   And get this, it’s from some seriously intelligent wordsmiths, who chose the famous -- or infamous --  Palin phrase “refudiate” as their word of the year.    The made-up word tweeted and deleted in minutes on  Palin̵...

Thanks, Sarah Palin: 'Refudiate' Dubbed Word of the Year (Time.com)
One of the most mocked Twitter blunders of the year just got a boost in prestige. The New Oxford American Dictionary has named "refudiate" the Word of the Year, an honor that the Facebook term "unfriend" took home last year. Sarah Palin coined/made up the word when she tweeted that she wanted "peaceful Muslims" to challenge the "Ground Zero Mosque." It was commonly agreed that Palin was mixing the words "refute" and "repudiate" to create the never-before-heard term. (See photos from Palin's n...

Governor Palin’s ‘Refudiate’ named 2010 word of the year
The former Alaska Governor famously used the made-up word on her Twitter account in July, which sent the media into a tizzy. “Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate,” Palin said on her Twitter account. There was speculation that she meant to say “refute” or “repudiate” - and this was an amalgam of the two. According to Robert Wicks, a publicist for T...

Dan Cleary: 'Refudiate' Now a Real Word; 'Corpseman' Still Not
Sarah Palin's Reality show scored huge Ratings for its premiere Sunday night, while the guardians of usage at the New Oxford American Dictionary awarded the former Alaska Governor the higher-brow distinction of coining 2010's "word of the year" — "refudiate" — via her Twitter account. The former Governor used the word in a Twitter message last summer, calling on "peaceful Muslims" to "refudiate" a planned Mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York. When critics pounced on ...

'Refudiate' Now a Real Word; 'Corpseman' Still Not
Sarah Palin 1, Barack Obama 0. Sarah Palin's Reality show scored huge Ratings for its premiere Sunday night, while the guardians of usage at the New Oxford American Dictionary awarded the former Alaska Governor the higher-brow distinction of coining 2010's "word of the year" — "refudiate" — via her Twitter account. *** The former Governor used the word in a Twitter message last summer, calling on "peaceful Muslims" to "refudiate" a planned Mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks in New Yo...

Palins 'Refudiate' is Word of 2010
Sarah Palin at a rally in O'Fallon, Mo. in August 2008. (Jeff Geerling / Flickr.com / Creative Commons) (NewsCore) - The New Oxford American Dictionary announced Monday that “refudiate,” a word made famous by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had won its 2010 Word of the Year award. “From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we have concluded that neither 'refute' nor 'repudiate' seems consistently precise, and that 'ref...

'Refudiate' US word of the year
AAP A made-up word most famously used by US politician Sarah Palin has been named the Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2010. During a TV appearance in July Ms Palin demanded that US President Barack Obama `refudiate' charges that the country's Tea Party movement is Racist - the word is believed to be a mixture of `refute' and `repudiate'. The New York Post says `refudiate' triumphed over other words including `bankster', a name for an evil Banker, and `Gleek', a name for a fa...

Sarah Palin coins word of the year, books boffo cable debut (The Ticket)
Sarah Palin's Reality show scored huge Ratings for its premiere Sunday night, while the guardians of usage at the New Oxford American Dictionary awarded the former Alaska Governor the higher-brow distinction of coining 2010's "word of the year" — "refudiate" — via her Twitter account. According to TLC, roughly 4.96 million people tuned in to watch the first episode of "Sarah Palin's Alaska." That's the biggest premiere in the channel's history. And as if the Ratings triumph weren't enough,...

New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year: Refudiate
Once again Sarah Palin has an impact on the culture and has created a new word: An unquestionable buzzmaker in 2010, the word refudiate instantly evokes the name of Sarah Palin, who tweeted her way into a flurry of media activity when she used the word in certain statements posted on Twitter. Critics pounced on Palin, lampooning what they saw as nonsensical vocabulary and speculating on whether she meant “refute” or “repudiate.” From a strictly lexical interpretation of ...

Refudiate: Word of the Year!
“Refudiate”: Word of the Year!Monday, November 15th, 2010 A bigger hunk of venison than usual being cooked up at the Palin household tonight: Congratulations, Sarah Palin: “Refudiate” Named Word of the Year Sarah Palin has officially changed the modern lexicon, one tweet at a time. While one might expect the New Oxford American Dictionary to refudiate the former Alaska Governor’s favorite verb, today they embraced it, announcing “refudiate” as the official 2010 wo...

Palin's 'Refudiate' Wins 2010 Word Of The Year
It may not make Sarah Palin's tweets any easier to read, but maybe she was on to something when she combined the words "refute" and "repudiate" into the now infamous "refudiate." The New Oxford American Dictionary has named 'refudiate' its 2010 Word of the Year, defining it as: refudiate : verb used loosely to mean "reject": she called on them to refudiate the proposal to build a Mosque. 
[origin -- blend of refute and repudiate] In addition to winning the title, "refudiate" will be added...

BFF and bromance are words? Refudiate away!
Nobody can “refudiate’’ that Sarah Palin has left her mark on American culture. The New Oxford American Dictionary lexicographers crowned “refudiate” — a word the former GOP vice presidential nominee made up — the 2010 Word of the Year. “Refudiate” took on a life of its own once critics went on the attack, said Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer of U.S. dictionaries for Oxford University Press. “It was pretty fascinating to see h...

The 2010 "word of the year" is "refudiate."
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary: An unquestionable buzzmaker in 2010, the word refudiate instantly evokes the name of Sarah Palin, who tweeted her way into a flurry of media activity when she used the word in certain statements posted on Twitter. Critics pounced on Palin, lampooning what they saw as nonsensical vocabulary and speculating on whether she meant “refute” or “repudiate.” From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which...

Word of the Year: Refudiate
The staff of the New Oxford American Dictionary has named “ refudiate” - former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s mashup of “refute” and “repudiate” - as the 2010 Word of the Year, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The news organization quotes the staff as saying: “From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used ‘refudiate,’ we have concluded that neither ‘refute’ nor ̵...

Palin's 'refudiate' named a Word of the Year -
The staff of the New Oxford American Dictionary has named "refudiate" - former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's mashup of "refute" and "repudiate" - as the 2010 Word of the Year, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Palin, also a Republican former vice Presidential Candidate, generated lots of conversation when she used the word on Twitter. Slate calls Palin's use of the word "an unquestionable buzzmaker." NextCalif. Supreme Court upholds in-state Tuition for Illegal Immigrants Guidelines: You share in th...

New Oxford American Dictionary Chooses "Refudiate" As Word of the Year
It's Sarah Palin's world; we just live in it. An unquestionable buzzmaker in 2010, the word refudiate instantly evokes the name of Sarah Palin, who tweeted her way into a flurry of media activity when she used the word in certain statements posted on Twitter. Critics pounced on Palin, lampooning what they saw as nonsensical vocabulary and speculating on whether she meant “refute” or “repudiate.” From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Pal...

Refudiate Is the Word of the Year
Looking Back in Fairbanks — Nov. 16 Q: What Do the Tea Party and Obama’s Press Pool Have in Common? Purchase the DVD here. The Documentary was endorsed by Governor Palin (listen here). It's pretty clear to me that "refudiate" should be added to the dictionary. It appears that the Oxford Dictionary may be moving in that direction by naming "refudiate" the word of the year: "From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we ha...

Palin's 'refudiate' makes word-of-year lists: Alaska Newsreader
"Refudiate," Sarah Palin's widely ridiculed mashup of "repudiate" and "refute" -- though she was far from the first to use the word -- has been named 2010 Word of the Year by the staff of the New Oxford American Dictionary. ...

Word of the Year: Refudiate
Partisan Programming: Dems vs. GOP This year, Sarah Palin created a very memorable neologism, and now that word has become famous like its politician-turned-reality-star creator! Yes, the word voted in by the good people at the New Oxford American Dictionary is refudiate. But does this mean it’s now legit? Take it away, New York Post. —KA “From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used ‘refudiate,’ we have concluded that nei...

Congratulations, Sarah Palin: Refudiate Named Word of the Year
ABC News’ Mary Bruce reports: Sarah Palin has officially changed the modern lexicon, one tweet at a time. While one might expect the New Oxford American Dictionary to refudiate the former Alaska Governor’s favorite verb, today they embraced it, announcing “refudiate” as the official 2010 word of the year. "From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we have concluded that neither 'refute' nor 'repud...

Palin-Coined 'Refudiate' Named Oxford Word of the Year
By choosing it as its word of the year, Oxford University Press has ushered in "refudiate" — the much-debated combination of "refute" and "repudiate" made famous by Sarah Palin — to our commonly accepted lexicon. "From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we have concluded that neither 'refute' nor 'repudiate' seems consistently precise, and that 'refudiate' more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of 'r...

Palin's 'Refudiate' Is Oxford American Dictionary's Word Of The Year
What is this? Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate. The media world jumped on it. Jimmy Kimmel even found out that Palin used the word "refudiate" more than once: Well, the editors at Oxford American Dictionary figured that "refudiate" expressed something different enough that it deserved to be a new word. They explain: From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Pa...