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As some will have seen already, this was noted in a recent Quinion newsletter:
Each year, the conference of the American Dialect Society elects those words and phrases of the preceding year that seem noteworthy. […] And now (a drum roll, maestro, please) the Word (or Phrase) of the Year. This required three rounds of voting. But the final winner was "metrosexual", a fashion-conscious heterosexual male, or, as Mark Simpson put it, a man who "has clearly taken himself as his own love object" (see http://quinion.com?XA).
I liked Mark Simpson’s definition! But how we led the pack on this juan...
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