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So sez the Global Language Monitor.

The Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2009 is “unfriend.” unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.” “It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US …