Monday, November 10, 2008

New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year: Hypermiling

Remarkably, I've heard this term used in a perfectly understandable sentence earlier this year.  "In order to save our precious oil resources, I was hypermiling on the way to Corpus as the family slept peacefully in the back of the van."  Sound familiar?


Also posted on Neatorma.  The presumed originator of the phrase is Wayne Gerdes.

2 comments:

BrotherSister said...

That's so funny--Michael was just talking about doing some of these things the other day and called it that. I think he read about it somewhere. I honestly looked at him askance when he was talking about some of the funny things he would do to save a bit of gas! You gotta love him for it, though! It's what makes him unique! :)

Love, Nancy

msirach said...

A new Guinness World Book of Records record was set early this morning when the CleanMPG team of Wayne Gerdes, Justin Fons, and Jennie Chen achieved an average of 68.537 mpg in a new 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid sponsored by American Honda and Scangauge! The record was for the highest mpg on a contiguous drive through 48 states.