Sarah Palin's Twitter Gaffe Makes The Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year

Mama grizzly Sarah Palin has made the news again, and this time she’s getting some positive accolades as a wordsmith, of sorts. A mis-typed word on her Twitter account this past summer has made its way into the Oxford American Dictionary as the Word of the Year. Read on for what Palin-creation will be enshrined in the dictionary, and the other tech-inspired words it joins.

Last July, Palin wrote the following Tweet about the Ground Zero Mosque plans:

And now “refudiate” – ostensibly a word that combines refute and repudiate – will take top honors in the Oxford American Dictionary as the Word of the Year.

According to the announcement on the Oxford

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