Unfriend - 2009 Word of the Year

New Oxford American Dictionary announced the 2009 Word of the Year, and it is unfriend. This new word is verb and means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site such as Facebook. There was a group of new words that were candidates for the Word of the Year. I was a little disappointed that audism and deafhood were not considered as ones of them.

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Education

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• Deafhood
• Deaf
• ASL
• Audism
• Dictionary
• Shawn28

[tubeshawn28]

We need to keep spreading out the words to the Deaf community & people in general and ask them to make a noise about them! Audism & Deafhood need to be HEARD and SEEN! Thanks.

[SilverLove4]

Neat!, I like that word "Unfriend". Never heard of.

Did you UNFRIEND KenX from your YouTube channel as a subscription and friend? lol!

Hope your and other deafies' goal to have both words of Audism and Deafhood placed in dictionary comes true!!

Thank for a wonderful educational video, About time!

[tubeshawn28]

Yeah, smartass! Since he UNFRIENDED me FIRST in his channel, I UNFRIENDED him too in fairness. LOL. I am gonna get your ass, SilverLove4.

[kydeafie]

Interesting about unfriend as the word of the year. Me, too, can't wait to see deafhood and audism listed in the dictionary. I am confident that it will happen soon. ;-)

[DeafSweetMind]

Yes I agreed and hope it will eventually to make the official terms of Audism and Deafhood into the dictionary soon or later. I just hope I will see to it as long as I am still alive. Lets put our fingers across and make it good hope for our Deaf community s sake. Thanks. :)