Though I think it's slipped past even on this side of the pond.  But not in Hawaii!  So I shall be imagining you sitting under a palm tree, enjoying a lovely drink adorned with a little umbrella, while all the beach boys gather around to sing Happy Birthday to you.

Otherwise I would be completely stymied if the 2011 Word of the Year came up:


    Word Of The Year 2011 According To Dictionary.com Is 'Tergiversate'
    Word Of The Year
    Posted: 11/30/11 03:06 AM ET

    A panel of editors, lexicographers and others at Dictionary.com have chosen the Word of the Year for 2011. The word is...

    Tergiversate

    Pronounced "ter-JIV-er-sate", it means “to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.”
    So we could say that, in 2011, the stock market tergiversated; or that the public tergiversated about Occupy Wall Street.
    "We're taking a stand on this choice," Jay Schwartz, Dictionary.com's Head of Content told The Huffington Post. "We think that it's immensely rewarding to find existing words that capture a precise experience, and this year, tumult has been the norm rather than the exception. There are contested public spaces around the world, where people are demonstrating in one direction or another. Opinions and circumstances have been oscillating so much.
    "This word encompasses an sense of 'flip flopping' but it also implies a number of other complicating forces. Unlike 'flip flop', 'tergiversate' suggests a lack of intentionality - it's a change in state more out of necessity, as new events happen at great speed, whether in the economy, politics or attitudes."
    The word's origins come from the Latin for "to turn one's back". Though not in common usage, it was utilized by The Times of London in August to describe the changing attitudes of stock markets.
    According to Schwartz, the team considered other words, including "occupy", "austerity", "jobs" (both the noun and the person), "zugzwang" and "insidious".
    However, though they may have tergiversated during their discussions, there will be no more tergiversation on the matter. It's Dictionary.com's Word of The Year 2011.

Some text speak is now officially English.  Ask the OED!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12893416

Loled and lolling now acceptable?

Hi - hope all you Brits are doing ok in spite of the snow.  Has it affected all of you, or just the north?

How about "relog"?  It is used both by the lumber industry, though more often in the form "relogging," and in computer directions, as in "logging in again."

Hi Alan,

I was surprised that "bolded" was not allowed.  I've seen and heard it on a regular basis, referring, of course to words like this.  Is it just in the U.S. that it's now being treated as a verb?

Here are a couple of examples I found very easily:

from http://www.wordnik.com/words/bolded

• Even more than that hope, Barack Obama has made it clear (so clear it's in bolded letters on his web site): —Barack, Dont Ask Me - Show Me
  
   To repeat: the bolded is false, and not supported by the link provided upthread.  —Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local

Not sure that this is a good word for Easter Sunday, but "redeath" is a fairly good word in Indian religions in the cycles of rebirth and redeath.

And the King James Bible has lots of examples of "eateth" - here's a quick link to the concordance I found on line:
http://www.abibleconcordance.com/e031.htm#e035

And "careth" is there too:
http://www.abibleconcordance.com/c086.htm#c099