Remember the year 2015… The word “e-cigarette” entered the British "Oxford" dictionary. Today, it is perhaps the word "Vapoter" which could integrate "Le Petit Robert", a dictionary known and recognized in the French-speaking world.
"VAPOT", A WORD THAT IS FULGARLY IMPOSED THIS YEAR!
It is our colleagues from the newspaper " Provence "Which announces it today, the verb" vapoter Would be part of the list of words that made a splash this year. Indeed for the bloodhounds of Little RobertDo not miss words and phrases that go through a year. They have twelve months, notebook or smartphone in hand, to draw in this gigantic tide 100 to 150 words that will make their entry in the dictionary.
Entries in a database, their findings will lead to a first sorting then to a vote: there is there the management committee of the Robert, his army of documentalists and lexicographers, and the mythical bacchantes of the linguist Alain Rey. « The words chosen by majority are automatically retained, precise Trouble, then the debate begins on those who have a little less than the average.« Their recurrent, relevant nature is a determining factor.
It is with pleasure that we learn that « Some impose themselves in a dazzling way, such as vaping or selfie. ". Hopefully this verb which designates the fact of vaping or using an electronic cigarette will very soon join the famous list of words present in the Petit Robert.
