Justice Lee’s Lehrmann judgment – and, perhaps, his TV diet – issued a new word into the public’s consciousness.
Leaving port, loaded to the gills, the MV Dali struck Baltimore’s bridge. Girders crumpled. The freeway buckled, slumped like rubber. Six onsite workers lost their lives, falling into the Patapsco.
Justice Lee’s Lehrmann judgement – and, perhaps, his TV diet – issued a new word into the public’s consciousness.Put it this way, when did you last suffer an “allision”? The term joined the weekly Trend Watch on the Merriam-Webster homepage, where the US dictionary logs what words pull the greatest number of look-ups, be that “impeach” or “apogee”, depending on the media’s focus.
That’s to say the Francis Scott Key Bridge played no active role in the crash; the pylon was innocent. Owing to an onboard blackout, the MV Dali lost her steering, maydaying the US Coast Guard minutes before the andante allision. Cue the headlines, plus a new verb reaching landlubbers.Credit:Now and then, in Trend Watch tradition, this column will also focus on words exposed by news or memes.
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