Les mots du jour: Anaphore, amarissage …

Every year at this time, as part of the annual retrospective, the media comes out with a list of new words.  This morning (appropriately enough, in the Review section) the New York Times weighed in with a list of words that had either been coined in the course of 2012, or enjoyed a vogue.

Le Figaro also comes up with its own dozen, for French:

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/12/21/01016-20121221ARTFIG00583-les-douze-mots-de-l-annee-2012.php?m_i=bOcbMGwz_B%2BjwGxob9Aqn1BlP82d5P30ZZlMIhy%2Bdk8wksjHr

Oddly, two of the words on the NYTimes list  appear also on the French list: nomophobia and swag, thus continuing the present French penchant for anglicisms -- or rather, Americanisms -- which we discussed here:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/12/word-of-day-pipolade.html

 

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