New words

The Sunday NYTimes Week in review filled its front page with new words in 2009.   Here's a few:

Aporkalypse:  Undue worry in aresponse to swine flu.  Includes unncessary acts like removing nonessential kisses from Mexican telenovelas and the mass slaughter of pigs in Egypt.

Chimerica:   The intertwined economies of China and the Unites States, which together dominate the world economy.   Popularized by Niall Ferguson in his book "The Assent of Money"

Octomom:  Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets in January.

CarTone:   Music or amabient noise proposed for use by electric cars, whose quitness otherwise makes them go unnoticed by pedestrians.

Ununbium:  The temporary name of a newly found element.  Uub for short.  It omes fromt he Latin for the element's number, 112.

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