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Oxford University Press Word of the year

Post by Audley Strange » Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:43 pm

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/pres ... year-2012/

A perfect word that sums up the entirety of this century and millennium so far. What else fits but "omnishambles."
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Re: Oxford University Press Word of the year

Post by Azathoth » Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:43 pm

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Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

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Re: Oxford University Press Word of the year

Post by klr » Mon Dec 31, 2012 10:52 pm

Audley Strange wrote:http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/pres ... year-2012/

A perfect word that sums up the entirety of this century and millennium so far. What else fits but "omnishambles."
The Thick Of It strikes again - thank you, Malcolm Tucker! :cheers:
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Re: Oxford University Press Word of the year

Post by Audley Strange » Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:13 pm

klr wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/pres ... year-2012/

A perfect word that sums up the entirety of this century and millennium so far. What else fits but "omnishambles."
The Thick Of It strikes again - thank you, Malcolm Tucker! :cheers:
He shall be missed.
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