03 May 2006

I'm a blauthor?

BLOOK
One of the telltale signs to dictionary makers that a new word is becoming established is that compounds and derivatives are readily formed and used. That's most certainly true of "blog", the abbreviated form of "weblog" that has spawned terms like "warblog", "videoblog" and "litblog". "Blook" is the most recent form, a blend of "blog" and "book." A blook is a blog that has been turned into a book. The word has been in the news because of the inaugural award in the genre, sponsored by a self-publishing Web site named Lulu, which named it the Blooker Prize (one for m'learned friends, you may feel).
From World Wide Words. Many years ago my Mom told me that I would write a book some day. Maybe she meant to say blook.

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