TWO WORDS FROM PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL

BLING

This word arrived in English in late 1990s. the sound-symbolic character of the word - glistening light reflected by metal - it caught popular attention. The Times ran an article on it. It was the title of a novel by Erica Kennedy, and its sense began to broaden as people began to use the word in new ways. There's a website, 'Think Bling!' defining it as 'anything shiny and worth a
good amount of money'. Cars can now be bling.

BLOG

In 2001, I wrote a book called, Language and the Internet, and I didn’t mention the word blog. Well, this year, I have a second edition out. In it goes, that’s how fast the internet moves. Those who blog, bloggers, carry out the activity of blogging, setting up a blog site, with a unique web address in order to do so. It’s an abbreviation of ‘web log’; a phrase that was first used in 1997, both as a noun and as a verb, a web log.

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