Thursday, September 27, 2007

What's so new about "frienemies"

I found myself watching ABC News early yesterday morning and couldn’t help snickering, when a segment aired and the word ‘frienemies’ was referred to as something new. Jamaicans have been using that word for as long as I can remember; I know that more than 10 years have passed since I first heard it. I know that the term came into popular culture in the USA sometime in the late 1990s thanks to New Radicals and their hit song, You get What You Give.

Just out of curiosity I went to urbandiction.com and there it was. I quick search online showed that the term has been in use for years.

Sorry, ABC, nothing new about that word, but the piece was entertaining.