WORDS: Neologism watch at the New York Times and elsewhere

by Josh Kimball

Check out the Times visualization for fancy definitions of:

-staycation
-schadenbasel
-pop

Also:
-disemvoweling: leaving the vowels out of a word as a way of self-censoring or evade forum (or other) censors. [t of bs]

Also:
-gaymer: LGBT videogame fans.

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