The Lexicographer's Rules

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

solastalgia n. a form of homesickness you get when you are still at home; feeling as though an environment has changed around you.

happy sack n. an air-sickness bag, the kind typically used on airplanes.

vein brother n. a man with which you get high on injected drugs, especially if you share a needle.

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

circus gold n. elephant dung.

singlism n. bias against people who are not married or part of a couple.

The American Dialect Society 2007 word of the year is “subprime.“ Press release here.

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

trunk monkey n. a rear gunner in an armed vehicle, caravan, or convoy. Used among military personnel and contractors in Iraq. It’s possible that the term derives from this advertisement from Suburban Auto Group, and others in the same series which first aired in Portland, Oregon, in January 2003.

wasta n. the Arabic word for influence, personal connections; “pull” or “juice.“ While not yet fully adopted as an English word, wasta is increasingly familiar to American soldiers serving in the Middle East. A previous surge in use of the term among Anglophones happened during the first Gulf War.

A recent interesting catchword from the Double-Tongued Dictionary is:

south to south adj. arbitrary jargon used at the World Bank to indicate migration from one poor country to another. “South to north” indicates migration from a poor country to a rich one.