Vertical

VERTICAL....Apparently the latest hot word to convince evangelicals that you're one of them is "vertical." Who knew? It's like trying to keep up with the latest from the hip hop world.

In other trendy word news, the American Dialect Society has chosen "subprime" as its word of the year. And it's not just an adjective anymore! MSNBC claims that it's also a verb, as in "I completely subprimed my Algebra test yesterday." Other ADS winners here.

UPFDATE: James Joyner and Mark Kleiman are unimpressed with the notion that "vertical" is evangelical dog whistling. I link, you decide.