Monday, May 9, 2011

 

Grrls car insurance

CoverGirl could soon be offering car insurance for grrls as the online social network user term for a woman has been included in the latest edition of “Collins Official Scrabble Words”.

Alongside “thang”, “innit” and “Wiki” the term “grrl” is now deemed a legal scoring word in the spelling game and, as such, has been accepted into the language of Scrabble gamers.

According to netlingo.com the term grrl was one of the very first internet jargon usages to imply a specific meaning for online use.

A grrl is a female internet user (young or old) who uses e-zines, vanity pages and blogs to create an online identity and offer self-expression.

The tem was originally coined by feminists and female punk rockers who wished to “toy with the status quo”.

The term gained popularity through the growth of “Webgrrls” a technology support group for women introduced in 2000.

Now, the term refers to any woman who spends a lot of time online.

So come on ladies (or maybe that should be ladeez) get online and get your women’s car insurance from CoverGrrl – see what we did there?

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