Tuesday 20 January 2009

new words (and why you should start using them!)

a new year needs new vocabulary

I propose we compile a record of the weird, funny, useful words and phrases we encounter as we enter the last year of the decade

if WE start using them, maybe they'll enter wider usage

then, when the whole sixth form/school/town/(world?!) start using them, we can think - 'I helped start that off!'

take 'muppet shuffle'; this great-sounding phrase is in use NOW as slang in offices and companies across the country

what do YOU think it means? (clue: it's a change a company makes when things aren't going well)