Ken Magill over at Direct Mag has uncovered a new buzzword: Bacn - the "o" intentionally missing. The definition?

Bacn is reportedly a new term for e-mail that isn't really wanted, but isn't unwanted either, like Amazon recommendations, or account statements.

Ken takes exception to the use of a perfectly delightful, although calorie and fat content heavy, breakfast food for something as occasionally unwanted as advertisement emails.

I agree.

At a corporate convention the speaker once used breakfast foods as an analogy for our commitment to business: who has the most invested in our favorite meal of the day; the chicken or the pig?

The chicken gives something they are able to produce with little effort whereas the pig gives his life. Who is more invested? The pig, of course. To take a product of that self sacrificing gentle creative and tag it as something as distasteful as an Outlook clogging item like "spam" seems harsh. True, bacon is artery clogging, but oh so tasty.

So have we invented all the possible words? We have to take existing words and misspell them or combine them with other perfectly good words in order to expand our vocabulary?

Ken does an amusing job of taking this letter-omitting craze to new bodily function heights. Looking for a little chuckle? read "Stupid Buzzwords."

Deborah Chaddock Brown
Writer, Fond of Bacon WITH or without the "o"