January 15, 2004 - 'Word of 2003'   AA: I'm Avi Arditti with
Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- winning words
for 2003 as voted by a small group of linguists and other
scholarly observers of the language.  RS: More than seventy
members of the American Dialect Society voted in Boston on the
words that -- and we quote here -- "most colored the nation's
lexicon, or otherwise dominated the national discourse." The
chairman of the new words committee, Wayne Glowka, says the word
which most signifies 2003 is ... metrosexual.  GLOWKA:
"Metrosexual is not exactly a new word. I believe it's been
around since about 1996. There was some discussion about what it
actually meant. But I think we're safe in saying it's a
heterosexual male who is fashion conscious. He may look
fastidiously homosexual to someone else, but he's heterosexual."
RS: "So use it in a sentence for us."  GLOWKA: "Oh, I don't
know, 'that man with the nice nails certainly looks
metrosexual.'"  AA: "Is it considered -- "  GLOWKA: "I have ac