Oxford Word of the Year
A lady from the Oxford University Press e-mailed today to inform me that the New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen its “Word of the Year.” I noted last year’s winner: “Carbon neutral.” Well, this year, they’ve gone environmentally correct again. The word of the year is…drum roll please… “locavore.” The Oxford blog proudly touts its selection:
The past year saw the popularization of a trend in using locally grown ingredients, taking advantage of seasonally available foodstuffs that can be bought and prepared without the need for extra preservatives.
The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation.
“The word ‘locavore’ shows how food-lovers can enjoy what they eat while still appreciating the impact they have on the environment,” said Ben Zimmer, editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. “It’s significant in that it brings together eating and ecology in a new way.”
“Locavore” was coined two years ago by a group of four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius. Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some groups refer to themselves as “localvores” rather than “locavores.” However it’s spelled, it’s a word to watch.
Underwhelmed?
Me, too. Shouldn’t the word of the year be a word that more than four people have actually heard of?
Among the runners-up: “Tase” and “MRAP vehicle.”
A few of my nominations:
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Me? I’ll still take “crap weasel”. That’s my favorite.
Far as I know “crap weasel” is a Malkinism.
Shakespeare was a fan of crap weasel, I believe.
Personally, I like Shazamnasty: the sudden and near-instantaneous granting of US citizenship to raft-loads of illegal aliens.
As a newbie commenter, I too would vote for “crapweasel.”
But how about kakistocracy? That came from a spelling bee contestant, and it means a government in which the least able are in charge. I think it fits more than just our country, so it is even multicultural, multinational, multi-whatever…..They can’t just say it’s purely American.
I have never heard this word used before. And I live 3 hours from SF!
What an idiotic word. That’s the best they could do?
On a sidenote: Locally grown or organic produce is not any more nutritionally beneficial than what you get in the supermarket stores.
Lets dissect the word “Locavore”.
Loca (as in living la vida loca) means Crazy
Vore is a shortening of the word ‘voraphilia’ meaning ‘the love of being swallowed’. A vore is technically a person who enjoys being eaten or the act of eating someone else.
Translation: A crazy cannibal.
#5. Sure, but it’s free of all the chemicals and other man-made goodies that have a half-life of 30 years.
As I write this I am eating some delicious red grapes that were imported from Chile….I intend to do all I can to put the word ‘locavore’ into utter disrepute
We have a local talk show host who has coined the word “Crapistan”. i.e. The liberals are trying to turn the USA into Crapistan! It fits.
koskids (kohskĭds) noun,verb
1.Idiot child or young person.
2.(used as a familiar form of address.)
3. clueless
illocavore:
Someone who wants their local vegetables grown by illegal aliens. See Michael Chertof.
How about 2 for 1:
Def: crapweasel - a Congresscritter who votes for shamnesty.
They are staying out of the supermarkets? Good! More Cheetos, Chips Ahoy, and frozen burritos for me.
Kossack? Sack of what? Crazy cannibal fits well. Still laughing at obamanation!
My votes?
Thin-skinned pseudo citizen: (I think I coined this one)
Dursting: Rambling incessantly while saying nothing; though it could just as easily apply to most libs.
Edwardian: Talking to dead people (Or little d’s with the same limited mental capacities)
Malkin’: (Verb) Bringing the Conservative movement en masse to impart wisdom and knowledge to the moonbats in hopes that one day they will see the light!
Now please excuse me, I am trying to find someone with a private jet to fly me to the Carolinas so I can eat some tangerines in front of a mansion while I get my hair cut.
Sorry for the double post:
As far as organic products, I used to run a farm in Berkeley Springs W. Va. that marketed in D.C. Don’t let them fool you, they sprayed for mosquitoes over our farm at least four times a year during growing season. You can thank the same nanny state that is asking you to eat organic foods for that one. Guess what all the free-range chickens and rabbits were eating too! Organic? We even tried to get exemptions or force the state to use natural insecticides but they decried the cost and shoved us out the door. Organic? Wheat bread is about as close as I get, it really makes no difference.
-hoplophobe - n.
-hoplophobia - n.
- an irrational and morbid fear of guns, a term coined
by Jeff Cooper, from Greek “hoplites,” weapon.
shamnesty gets my vote.
Very funny Alohaguy! Mahalo for the early morning laughs.
I’m just puzzled. What’s magic about 100 miles. What if it’s 101 miles? Is that bad? What if I grow it at home but then drive 125 miles to my parents and eat it there?
And then what if I fish - and catch a migratory fish - it certainly traveled over 100 miles to come to me. Hmmm
I’ll just say thank you very much to God Almighty to allow it to be possible for me to eat my apple from New Zealand, my pineapple from Hawaii, my orange from Florida, and my beef from Nebraska all while sitting in Connecticut.
Helloooo although I live in a strong agricultural area I’m still in the middle of the Mojave Desert! and that 100 mile rule is starting to iritate me they use they same archaic distance for blacking out baseball games here and the population has grown significantly since it’s inception in the 100 mile radius. What do they want me to do for beef eat an indangered three toed lizard? not to many angus roamin around here either, and fish?
closest large body of water is the Salton Sea, go ahead I dare ya to eat a Corvina outa there. Livin on dates and Grapes isnt cuttin it for me. Now if it was a survival issue I could live off the fruit in the back yard and would make do with lizard gumbo.
I’m pretty sure all the gas spent driving to farmer markets to buy a couple pieces of fruit would far exceed bringing large quantities of non-local food to the super market if analyzed on a per-unit basis. But once again, what matters to liberals are the good intentions, not the disastrous results.
I vote for Goracle, or maybe its derivated verb, Gored. As in American taxpayers are about to be gored by the environmentalists.
I vote for “Shamnesty”, defined (here by me): a humorous combination of sham and amnesty, used to denote an intentionally misleading, false or bogus attempt to create a situation tantimount to amensty while denying the actual fact of it.
Great word. But no, you can hear “liberal” plastered all over their word of choice.
Yes, the liberals need to be driven out - on a rail if necessary - from the halls of power, and that includes the powerful halls of academia as well.
The primary problem with liberals is that they have no idea where the brick wall is - no idea where to stop. The further to the left they push, the more they redefine the boundries so, like any card-carrying obsessive/compulsive, they can continue their habit of pushing the boundries further. That isn’t ‘progessive”. It’s called mental illness, and this country is getting thick with it.
I think Crapweasel would be a great name for a band.
Nice comment by AlohaGuy telling it like it is. Most of the truck farms in the Bay Area have always been worked by illegal invaders. As far as only getting produce from a 100 mile area I guess that would relegate me to only eating potatoes and sugar beets except when other vegetables are in season during the limited growing season in Idaho unlike the year round growing season in California. God forbid we use the technology developed by humanity to make our lives better and provide a more balanced diet.
It’s the FDA who certified foods to be organic. This same agency also requires the nutritional information for Ho Hos’ is printed on the package. I believe Ho Hos’ are not of this world! Doesn’t it make you wonder?
Ho Ho’s? is that what Imus eats?
I cast my vote for “crapweasel” followed shortly thereafter by my next favorite, “flapdoodle” which is what a crapweasel does in the woods.
Crapweasel is a good choice for word of the year.
I like what all have been saying about what is in their 100 mile radius. Here in the West Tennessee area I’d be living on a diet of cotton, soy beans, milo, wheat, and corn. None of it would be processed, because they have to ship it somewhere else to do something with it.
I guess the cotton would provide good fiber though.
I’m kind of torn between Shamnesty and Crapweasel myself.
Aj, you are a riot.
crapweasel gets my vote as well.
maybe if we shortened turd burper to turper it may have made the cut but “crapweasel” is the winner hands down.
Nice word and an important subject… it’s a good idea to support local farmers and producers with their locally produced goods - instead of having the same fruit/vegetable flown thousands of miles from a far off state or country.
Loca: (Spanish feminine derivative) :– CrAzY
Vore: (The shortening of the word ‘voraphilia’ which means basically ‘the love of being swallowed’.
Locavore: Crazy cannibal supporter
Yea, you’re right sausage but I wonder how much gas would be burned to drive to the local farm and pick up just the few fresh veggies instead of going to the food market and buying an entire grocery order, and how many more trips to the local farm would be required every week.
Doesn’t sound very efficient to me. Way to think that one through.
Well, I live within that 100 mile radius of S.F. and the liberal stench has replaced the farm smells.
Isn’t this bit about “eating local” part of the schtick from that moron in NY that has stopped using paper for 1 year? Including toilet paper (and flush toilets)? I call it “the year of living dangerously.” I have to use twice as many paper towels just to make up for what that idiot isn’t using. And to top it all off, he plans on writing a book (!) about his and his family’s experience when the year is over! No, I’m not making that up! Typical. Liberal. Hypocrite.
What’s the next liberal “natural” fad? No deodorant? (We’d be going French). Hmmm. So lets see. All the farms within 100 miles, so we get that smell. Then we don’t use toilets or toilet paper, so we get that smell. Then, no deodorant. Oh, yeah. Liberalism is smelling better all the time!
you would have to go farm to farm to farm over a large portion of the state because most farms are specific to one item, but I would get a nice tour through hundreds and hundreds of miles of California scenery.
with a stop of extended stay in wine country.
Well, here in NE Wyoming we have farmers markets so we don’t have to drive from farm to farm. It’s really great, has all the local produce avalable picked fresh. The one in Sheridan (80 miles each way) is on Thursday afternoon from 1 - 5 PM (I work 8 - 5 M-F). But we do have one in Casper (130 miles each way so I have to fudge a bit on the miles) that runs on Saturday morning from 7:00 to noon. Starts the second weekend in August and runs all the way til first frost (usually right after Labor Day).
But for that 1 month, I can be a LOCAVORE. And if I buy everything they have each week and bottle/freeze it myself, I could probably get through about March. It’s a small market.
Yeah, CRAPWEASEL.
100 MI radius. Me: Brats, cranberries, beer…oh dang, boycotting Miller. Could have worked, but those pervs in SF screwed it up for me. Ironic, no?
Closest one to me is borrego springs, most everything is trucked in to the coachella valley. cept grapefruit! yum.
state by state
Farmers Markets
#16 FYI,
“hoplophobia” comes from “hoplon,” the greek shield, not the users of the hoplon, the hoplites. See also, “hoplology,” the study of weapons.
Crapweasel gets my vote. Nothing better describes the pests that have infested American government.
Humans did this for untold thousands of years… and loved the experience so much they invented supermarkets so they wouldn’t have to do it anymore.
How hilarious is it that people who like to call themselves “progressive” are working so tirelessly to undo two hundred years of progress?
Too bad the “local” farmers that sell in this area of California cannot meet the demand of the burgeoning “Farmers Markets”.
So they do what the boutique “whole” foods stores are doing: supplementing their inventories with stock from the produce districts of the major metro areas.
“Sustainable” farming is a scam. The cost of production includes a lower fuel cost, but the prices charged are still above premium prices I pay at a chain market for “poisoned” produce.
None of the “organic” farmers can explain that. Just like the local bread and bakery cooperatives cannot explain why their goods cost more than what one would pay at a full service gourmet operation.
I can: scale, buying power, distribution infrastructure, you know- good old fashion economics and arithmetic.
Wishing doesn’t make it so.
bear, didnt you just lose a bakery up there? lol….
I suspect that those who love the term “locavore” may be coprophiles if not coprophages.
This discussion of local food is a disguised way of attacking the lifeblood of the American economy, the trucking industry.
If these people want to revert to the lifestyles the pre-Lewis and Clark Americans enjoyed, then they are welcome to their nomadic tee-pees.
I hope they don’t mind slaughtering the Buffaloes themselves to use the meat for food, the bones and skin for the aforementioned teepees, and the sinewy ligaments for the hand made bow and arrow to take down the 2 ton Buffaloes at close range.
Does anyone see the humor in picturing The AlGoracle hunting plains Buffalo in a loincloth with a bow and arrow?
Now that’s organic!
I use ‘craptacular’ almost daily.
aJ- ya we sure did; even though there is still a BMB operating on Telegraph Avenue. and a jewelry store.
Exactly right. And then some. All of this “buy local” crap is a movement to de-industrialize the USA. Global warming is nothing more than a scam to wage down the USA population as a whole.
The “buy local” crowd flies in the face of the REALITY that the logistics, transportation, and supply chain infrastructure in this country makes SMALL BUSINESS possible for millions of Americans.
Small business is the backbone of the economy. Vegetable production by a handful of local “insiders” is a great way for people to participate in the economic prowess that is America.
But as “policy”, along with the centralized management by states (certification, inspection, etc)and the bureaucracy required (along with pensions, benefit plans- you should see what it is costing the City of Berkeley to “go green” in terms of bureaucracy), it is NUTS.
Our elected officials are asleep at the wheel as they monkey jump onto the “Green” bandwagon.
Puke.
My nominee is “progressive”: A craptaclar attempt by Shrillary Rodyourhams Clintoon, with the help of the Goracle and the Obamanation to shamnyfy their way out of being known as what they truly are, LIBERAL CRAPWEASELS!!!!
Proof, if ever there was needed, that tin foil hats are worn on the right too!
Not Ghouliani or Hitlary? Damn, Oxford is becoming increasingly less cromulent
I love crapweasel. I think craptacular is a derivative of crapweasel, as in the actions of a crapweasel can sometimes cause an event referred to as craptacular, or as a noun. This event organized by a crapweasel has become a real craptacular.
All of these terms are inter-related.
The crapweasels decided to foist upon us against our will Shamnesty, which turned into a massive craptacular, or even the rare craptastic craptacular.
Also, Harry “the body” Reid has been named by me Count Crapula of Crapsylvania, serving on Crapitol Hill.
Who should be Lady Crapula, Hillary or Pelosi?
I forgot the incident on the bridge at Crappaquitit.
I claim “craptastic” as my own. Been using it for years. Nobody else can have it!
Sue me:)
Buying local is not a bad thing, especially if you’re close by and it’s convenient. This is a good part of my livelyhood. I grow all my vegetables and fruit (in season) and raise my own beef, again, a good thing. However not everyone has this ability or chooses to do so. The Mohave is one of the most beautiful places on earth but I don’t think I’d try raising a crop there. I think the real issue is not how great store bought food is compared to driving to a farmers market but the POLITICAL CORRECTNESS being shoved down our throats. I will gladly eat food shipped from afar but I tend to gag on the PC stuff.
I will be driving through the Mohave next week and can’t wait for a date milkshake!
get the date/banna traveler, their better. yum city.
stop here,
Hadleys
lol, banana
How about kiddieshield; a small child sacrificed on the alter of liberal ideology.
Dates and bananas, my two favorite flavors combined.
It is hard to type bananas, you have to stop and count an an an.
if you go to Hadley’s get the “aztec trail mix”, Addiction Warning!!!
Locavore, used in a sentance:
A restaurant in Moscow, was being modern and very pc, by serving locally grown dogs to their “locavore” customers.
I just looked up Hadley’s and I will not be near it. Going from Boron up to Needles. Dang it.
they ship the trail mix..
its worth it…
I wonder if they will ship the dogs? Hadley’s trail mix and schnauzer. A global P.C., multicultural lunch.
I am sorry but I just love craptacular. Every time I hear it my mind travels to posts like snausage’s above and the thought process behind it.
I am always left with CRAPTAULAR!
I like crapweasel and shamnesty myself ;).
Some ideas are so dumb, only a “progressive” can believe them. The ability to grow foods all over the world and ship them anywhere inexpensively has permitted people to eat a far better and healthier diet than a century ago.
How about Libtard ?
Weaselcrap
My vote is for Libtard with a close second for shamnesty.
My husbands contribution:
Gorenados as in Gorenado season
Goreicanes as in Goreicane season
Of course there is always “gumballs”!!!
Shamnesty has definitely got my vote!
aj,in San Francisco you can go down to the market at the Embarcadero where your Federal Tax money is being spent by Nancy Pelosi. It has the benefit of being extremely close to her rental properties…
(but you’re right about inefficiencies…)
But how much of that food is grown at the piers? I have seen some funky things growing there nearby but certainly not anything I would want to eat. Are they bringing it on electric cars fueled by their carbon-emitting power stations? Just a thought.
Hmmm… my idea for Chipotle Cheddar was stolen much the same way…
I do think buying locally (and nationally) is important and not to be dismissed as a purely liberal-therefore-not-good thing. I buy locally myself, where possible. Look at it the other way: China is selling the world its cheap trinkets… see the results - they are making a lot of money from selling the word poisonous and worthless gadgets and toys.
I buy, as much as possible, and within reason, from local producers and manufacturers (local as in: from my neighborhood, from my city, from my region, from my country - in that order). It’s in my interest, local businesses’ interest, and that of the community in which I live. We mustn’t let a bunch of wishy-washy pinkoes with a political agenda hi-jack this.
Local jobs, products, and services for locals, patroned by locals. As much as possible.
Right on Antaradus. That is an excellent point about not letting them hi-jack this issue.