30 January 2007

Acronym to verb of the year: FOIPOPed

FOIPOP is the unwieldy acronym for Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of Nova Scotia.

Some politicians and government bureaucrats would prefer to keep a lid on certain information, but journalists use FOIPOP to force an unwanted disclosure.

"We were trying to keep the whole thing quiet, but CBC and Global foipoped us."

Following this logic we can conjugate the verb to foipop

I foipop
you foipop
he/she foipopped
we foipop
you (plural) foipopped
they foipopped


Foipop hasn't made it into the Blogger spell checker as yet, but we typists applaud this acronym to verb construction. Long live foipop.
(Thanks to Tagbagger)