Linguists Gone Wild!, about how the The American Dialect Society chooses its Words of the Year.

It’s always nice to see santorum get greater publicity. (By the way, that site gives new meaning to “splash page.”)

My favorite quotes from the article:

The suffix -based, as in faith-based or reality-based, was widely disliked. “It’s its own opposite,” said Bill Kretzschmar, editor of the Linguistic Atlas of America. “If it’s reality-based, it’s not real.” …

But carb-friendly — when used to mean “not containing carbohydrates” — took the prize. “It’s meaningless,” said phonetician David “Not the Rock Star” Bowie, “unless you’re saying you’re a friend of carbs by not eating them.”