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I read the novel Frindle<\/span> by Andrew Clements<\/a> when I was 8 years old. It was a chapter book recommended to me by my teacher that year because I had exhausted the collection of books in the classroom. It’s a really fun book, of those who have never heard of it. It’s about the story of a boy who has an English teacher that isn’t very nice and so he makes up a new word (frindle) for the word pen as the teacher had explained to the boy (Nicholas) that the reason why words mean the things that they mean. So he makes up a new word and it catches on with his peers. I remembered this book when I was reading the news this morning and I came across this news article online that talks about the ‘word of the year’ for 2009 by the New Oxford American dictionary: unfriend<\/em><\/strong>. Nice to know that unfriending people on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> has become that popular that it’s become the word of the year<\/em>. Other words that were in consideration included “netbook” (as in, I really wish I had a netbook so I wasn’t carrying around a ~7lbs 15.4″ laptop around) and “sexting” (as in, something that you shouldn’t do while you’re still a minor).<\/p>\n