"birther" and "teabagger" were Oxford word of the year finalists

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Mon Nov-16-09 04:08 PM
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"birther" and "teabagger" were Oxford word of the year finalists

"unfriend" won...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unfriend-named-new-oxford-american-dictionarys-2009-word-of-the-year-70201607.html

Politics and Current Affairs

Ardi -(Ardipithecus ramidus) oldest known hominid, discovered in Ethiopia during the 1990s and announced to the public in 2009

birther - a conspiracy theorist who challenges President Obama's US birth certificate

choice mom - a person who chooses to be a single mother

death panel - a theoretical body that determines which patients deserve to live, when care is rationed

teabagger - a person who protests President Obama's tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as "Tea Party" protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773

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