Word of the Year: Unfriend

NEW YORK (AP) -- What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend?

That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the
Year.  It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook.

Each year Oxford University Press tracks how the English
language is changing and chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year.

Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg says unfriend has "real
lex appeal."

Finalists for 2009 also included netbook, which is a small
laptop, and sexting, which is sending sexually explicit texts and
pictures by cell phone.