Wordie's mole at the The Wall Street Journal has forwarded another worthwhile post, this one from the WSJ Health Blog. The WotY is a global phenomenon*, and Heather Won Tesoriero posts about some gems in the 'health' category of the Word of the Year contest sponsored by the Macquarie Dictionary in Australia.

My favorite by far is "salad dodger," defined as an overweight person. I envision an Artful Dodger focused solely on junk food, quietly pocketing moon pies while avoiding the soy police.

* And an exhausting one. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't even blogged about the American Dialect Society's recently annointed WotY. I very much like their choices and their attitude, both of which are better than most of the commercial WotY offerings. But I'm suffering a bit of WotY fatigue**. I'll try to get fired up, as Obama (and Hillary) would say, this weekend.

** Doubly embarrassing is that I have given short shrift to Wordie's own grassroots WotY movement, which has been great fun to watch from the sidelines. Though part of me thinks it might function best as a phantom WotY, forever discussed but never announced.

Labels: Macquarie Dictionary, Moon Pie, Salad Dodger, Wall Street Journal, WOTY