Webster Dictionary Declares 'Crackberry' Its Word of the Year
New Orleans City Business › November 20, 2006
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When Webster's New World College Dictionary Editor in Chief Michael Agnes sat down with his staff to select their annual word or catch phrase that best represents the times we live in and the changing nature of the English language, they chose a word that would make tech-savvy business executives proud: "Crackberry."
The staff at John Wiley & Sons, the Hoboken, N.J.-based publishing group of the dictionary, holds an annual Word of the Year contest and chose the term Crackberry, which combines the word for the addictive cocaine called "crack" and the "berry" from Blackberry, a handheld device originated by Research in Motion.See the full content of this document
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Webster Dictionary Declares 'Crackberry' Its Word of the Year
"The word represents all handheld devices, the technology culture change we have gone through in that there is an addictive nature for people to get and give information on the go," Agnes said. "I...
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