This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
unitasking
allision
middlescence
yeasayer
longlist

This week’s comments
AWADmail 787

Next week’s theme
Places that became verbs

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(LONG-list)

MEANING:

noun: A preliminary list of candidates, such as people, places, things, etc. (for a prize, job, etc.), from which a shortlist is compiled.
verb tr.: To place on a longlist.

ETYMOLOGY:

Patterned after the word shortlist. Earliest documented use: 1972 (shortlist is from 1927).

USAGE:

“I’ve just come from the ceremony where it was announced my recent novelette has been nominated to be nominated to be nominated for the longlist for the Pulitzer Prize.”
Matt Potter, et al; Freak; Pure Slush Books; 2016.

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