Oxford word of the year: "unfriend."

The Oxford English Dictionary, that hoary bastion of lexicography and the final authority on all matters concerning the English language, has announced its word of the year, and it comes straight from the markedly less-hallowed halls of the internets: "unfriend." Yes, that callous, anonymized act of deleting a person from your life with the simple click of a mousepad has been immortalized in the annals of the most comprehensive record of any language ever assembled. Unfriend. This is the best we can do? Christ.

TROUGH