Top-10: Non-Words of 2010

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You may have recently heard that the Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) each year, recently announced the new batch of 2,000 words that have been added to its current edition.

Examples that did make it into the dictionary this year include Netbook – a portable Internet device; Staycation – an at home holiday; freemium – a free premium gift; Jeggings – skin-tight leggings that resemble jeans as well as hundreds of others.

We’ve heard of most of those words. However, I’m interested in the words that did NOT make the cut.

As a tribute to their failure, here are my top-10, favorite Non-Words as determined by the OED for 2010: