Sarah Palin may have been on the receiving end of quite a bit of mockery when she inadvertently coined the term “refudiate” last July, but now the former Alaska governor is getting her due – kind of. The New Oxford American Dictionary has named “refudiate” 2010’s Word of the Year.
Palin introduced the term into the American lexicon last July when she used it in a Tweet about the proposed Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site in New York City. “Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate,” she posted on her Twitter account.
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