February 04, 2004

glocal

Glocal is another metaplastic word submitted by prolific contributor Clint McInnes.

Clint says, "I saw this one in a trade journal advertisement. It is a combination of "global" and "local", and was used to describe the abilities of a parts distributor. They claim to source and serve both globally and locally, borrowing the best aspects of each approach."

Posted by Tim at 12:25 PM | Comments (0)

felicitator

Clint McInnes contributed this metaplastic word which cropped up in a reader's comment on Anu Garg's excellent A.Word.A.Day Compendium of Feedback.

Clyde Dawson wrote: "At a recent planning meeting, our chairman referred to our facilitator as 'felicitator' and the word has stuck fast. It will ever be part of our vocab for the one who leads the fun part of a meeting."

Posted by Tim at 12:24 PM | Comments (0)