TESOL France Colloquium 2006
Lexical Innovation
New Words and Expressions (and New Meanings for ‘Old’ Words) from the 1990s
1. An alcopop
2. As if!
3. Babelicious
4. A bad hair day
5. Blairism
6. Bling bling
7. A blog/to blog
8. Britpop
9. Canyoning
10. A chav
11. A chill-out room
12. Cool Britannia
13. A crusty
14. A cybercafé
15. Decluttering
16. Dianamania/Dimania
17. Docusoap
18. dotcom
19. In your dreams!
20. A dress-down (day)
21. To dumb … down
22. An emoticon
23. Ethnic cleansing
24. Euroland
25. The European Union
26. A fashionista
27. A gastropub
28. Genetically modified
29. To Google/to google
30. The grey pound
31. Grunge (clothes)
32. Happy-clappy
33. A home page
34. Hot-desking
35. HTML
36. http
37. Identity theft
38. A jobseeker
39. A juice box
40. Jungle (music)
41. Laddish
42. Get a life!
43. Lovely jubbly
44. A loyalty card
45. A metrosexual
46. The millennium bug
47. Monster (adj)
48. A mouse potato
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49. A Muggle
50. A mullet
51. Multiculti
52. To name and shame
53. A netizen
54. An offliner
55. To out someone
56. A personal stereo
57. Phat (adj)
58. phishing
59. Pukka (adj)
60. A red top
61. Regime change
62. Road-kill
63. A saddo
64. A screenager
65. A screen saver
66. A slaphead
67. A slapper
68. Spam (noun and verb)
69. A speed camera
70. To stalk someone
71. To surf
72. A sword opera
73. Tamagotchi
74. The third way
75. Trailer trash
76. Viagra
77. A waif
78. The Web
79. A web site/a website
80. The World Wide Web
© Dennis Davy (University of London Institute in Paris) d.davy@ulip.lon.ac.uk
18 November 2006
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