Come On, Dictionary

[Argh, I hate this client, it eats my posts and I never know until somebody tells me.]

I think everybody remembers that dreaded day this summer when Sarah Palin didn't know how to spell repudiate, and the world exploded. Trust me, I remember it well, I was on vacation and woke up to about 10,000 messages telling me that Palin had compared herself to Shakespeare. A book even came out of all the ShakesPalinisms that were spawned.

I would happily forget the whole thing. Except that the New Oxford American Dictionary has made her nonsense word the Word Of The Year, thus continuing to demonstrate the uselessness of dictionaries. I'll leave it to Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers to eviscerate her, and them, the right way.