{"id":958,"date":"2011-10-06T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=958"},"modified":"2011-10-06T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:17:05","slug":"from-arab-spring-to-zumba-its-dictionary-promotion-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"From Arab Spring to Zumba: it&#8217;s dictionary promotion time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday&#8217;s Thought from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?page_id=90\" title=\"Subscribe to Word of the Day\">Word of the Day<\/a> asks: who&#8217;d be a <em>mumpreneur<\/em>; or, how far will Collins go to promote their latest dictionary? From <em>Arab Spring<\/em> to <em>Zumba<\/em>, apparently (taking in <em>Boris bikes<\/em>, <em>casino banking<\/em> and <em>unfollow<\/em> along the way), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/oct\/05\/clicktivism-unfollow-new-words-dictionary\" title=\"New words in Collins dictionary\" target=\"_blank\">an article in today&#8217;s Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Serious wordsmiths (and pedants) have already begun to discuss the merits (and otherwise) of these (and other) neologisms in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/oct\/05\/clicktivism-unfollow-new-words-dictionary#start-of-comments\" title=\"Comments\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a> on the article &#8211; an example of <em>clicktivism<\/em>, perhaps? One (R042) sagely comments: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neologisms which aren&#8217;t euphonious or widely useful won&#8217;t become popular, but their existence is nothing to be worried about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So whilst <em>mumpreneur<\/em> might fade, I fear <em>casino banking<\/em> will go on&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far will Collins go to promote their new dictionary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[118,86],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-dictionary","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}