Watching our language: Writing about the financial crisis

Reuters by Dean Wright | Mar. 16, 2009 (Opinion)

The global financial crisis may have drained the coffers of investors, businesses and nations, but it’s making our language a bit richer as we discover, revive, coin and develop words and phrases to help make sense of it all.

Some take hold quickly and spread far and wide. “Bailout,” naturally, was voted Word of the Year for 2008 by the American Dialect Society and by Merriam-Webster and was No. 2 on Time’s “Top 10 Buzzwords” (a list ... Full Story »

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 by Fabrice Florin - Mar. 16, 2009

Interesting column about the words we use to describe the financial crisis, and how they affect our perception of the economy. I learned more from this blog post than I have from many much longer articles. The author is Dean Wright, Global Editor, Ethics, Innovation and News Standards at Reuters, a fine journalist and executive, who headed their web and multimedia strategy for years.

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