The Oxford Dictionaries named "big society" the word of the year: Link
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The phrase was coined by Prime Minister David Cameron, who said in July: “The big society ... is about liberation – the biggest, most dramatic redistribution of power from elites in Whitehall to the man and woman on the street.”
As far as I can tell, it hasn't made it far in the U.S.
Are there any words you'd consider for the 2010 word of the year? Mine might be "WikiLeaks."
As far as I can tell, it hasn't made it far in the U.S.
I can't see that it will, either. It's just political propaganda that no-one believes, anyway. What possessed Oxford to nominate that as word of the year I don't understand.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
We had our "Great Society" under Lyndon Johnson. I'm still poor and the rich aren't. But then maybe it was an immoral spelling error: It was supposed to be "Grate Society," wherein the scrawny poor got washed down the drain and the fat rich who couldn't fall through the grate didn't. Analogue to "trickle down" economics, wherein those on the bottom got pissed on.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
