New Words for How We Live Now Part 2

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Liesl Schillinger
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 23, 2013

Liesl Schillinger, culture critic, blogger and the author of Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century (Simon & Schuster, 2013), shares her neologisms for things like a person who overdoes the teeth-bleaching (brightbite) and introduces a new listener suggested word.

 

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