Non-Word "Refudiate" Gets Most Online Searches. September 7, 2010 / 12:48 PM EDT / CBS/AP Maybe the language lovers who looked up "refudiate" this summer wanted to refute or repudiate its ...

This makes me think of another “non-” word, “nonsensical”; that is, “unintelligible, foolish, silly, absurd, etc.” But maybe it’s just me; I’m not a numbers person.

Unlike Germany, Australia has no panel to choose the non-word of the year. Imagine the fun we could have if it did. The non-words we could vote into non-existence .

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added new words from various languages, acknowledging their common usage in English. These additions include terms from South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore ...

News; Merriam-Webster: Non-word 'refudiate', used by Sarah Palin, gets most online searches this summer. Published: ; Sep. 07, 2010, 5:48 p.m.

By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, parents can help young children learn new words, according to the research. It also explores the difficult-to-measure quality of ...

Palin non-word 'refudiate' gets most online searches. It's not a real word, but that hasn't stopped "refudiate" from becoming Merriam-Webster's 2010 "Word of the Summer." ...