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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

And I'm Grant Barrett. You know, Martha, ever since Barack Obama appeared on the national political

scene as a candidate, people have been coining words off of his name.

We talked about this on a past show, if you remember.

And it doesn't seem to have an end.

They keep going.

There are so many of these in fact that the online magazine

Slate published a book called Obama-Mania, the English language Barocified, and there's a ton of stuff

in there. It's an outgrowth of an article that they ran on their website and a little

web application that they built that featured some of this language. And you know, I'm involved with an organization

called American Dialic Society, and every year at about this time we do our Word of the Year vote.

So I've been taking nominations from the general public for several months now of terms that people

think are important to the year 2008.

What typifies 2008.

And it's interesting to see that near the top of the list,

one in five terms are forms of Barack Obama's name.

One in five?

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